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Female corpses in crime fiction = a transatlantic perspective /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Female corpses in crime fiction/ by Glen S. Close.
Reminder of title:	a transatlantic perspective /
Author:	Close, Glen S.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	xii, 261 p. :ill., digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99013-2
ISBN:	9783319990132

Female corpses in crime fiction = a transatlantic perspective /
Close, Glen S.

Female corpses in crime fictiona transatlantic perspective /[electronic resource] :by Glen S. Close. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xii, 261 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - Crime files. - Crime files..

1 Introduction -- 2 Necropornography in Modern Crime Fiction -- 3 The Hispanic Hard-Boiled -- 4 Femicide and Snuff -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited Index.

This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography characterized by lascivious interest in female cadavers, dissection, morgues, femicide, and snuff movies. Hard-boiled and police procedural classics from the U.S. and the U.K. are juxtaposed with texts by established Spanish and Spanish American genre masters and with obscure works that prefigure the contemporary transmedial boom in corpse-centered fictions. The rhetoric and aesthetics of necropornographic crime fiction are related to those of popular crime journalism and forensic-science television dramas. This study argues that crime fiction has long fixated disproportionately on the corpses of beautiful young white women and continues to treat their deaths and autopsies as occasions for male visual pleasure, male subjective slf-affirmation and male homosocial bonding.

ISBN: 9783319990132

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-99013-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

571067
Detective and mystery stories, English
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PN3448.D4 / C53 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 809.3872

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