TY - BOOK AU - Bennet, Tony. AU - Bennett,Tony TI - Popular fiction: technology, ideology, production, reading SN - 0415025176 U1 - 302.2/34 19 PY - 1990/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Culture in motion pictures KW - English fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Mass media KW - Motion pictures KW - Popular culture KW - Popular literature KW - Television broadcasting N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [461]-474; CONTENTS: Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Popular fictions and cultural technologies -- Introduction -- The technology and the society -- On screen, in frame: film and ideology -- Broadcast TV as cultural form -- 'While Millicent bucked and writhed...' -- Fictioning the nation -- Introduction --Apprehensions of time -- The language of detection -- Scotland and Cinema: the inquiry of the fathers -- Representing the nation -- Pleasure, gender, sexuality: feminist reappraisals -- Introduction -- Afterthoughts on 'visual pleasure and narrative cinema' -- Women in film noir -- Sexual disguise and cinema -- The search for tomorrow in today's soap operas -- Knowledge, power, ideology: detective fiction -- Introduction -- From the flaneur to the detective: interpreting the city of poe -- Clues -- Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method -- Deconstructing the text: Sherlock Holmes -- Production -- Introduction -- Send-up: authorship and organization -- The making of (the) MTM (show) -- Made in Ealing -- Out of what past? Notes on the B film noir -- Reading -- Introduction -- The operational aesthetic -- Peter Pan and the commercialization of the child -- Figures of bond -- Television and gender -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of cultural studies and literary studies ER -