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Crime fiction and film in the Sunshine State : Florida noir
- Title
- Crime fiction and film in the Sunshine State : Florida noir / edited by Steve Glassman and Maurice J. O'Sullivan.
- Publication
- Bowling Green : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS374.D4 C74 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 192 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- From Elmore Leonard's professional hoods to Carl Hiaasen's amateur grotesques, Florida's mystery writers have created a criminal universe that centers on Miami. For the first time, a group of literary critics examines how the center of crime shifted from the City of Angels to the home of Miami Vice and the Magic Kingdom and why the country's southernmost state has developed such a concentration of talented mystery writers.
- In addition to essays on the origins of the detective novel in Florida and its contemporary masters, the book includes a chapter on Florida film noir from Key Largo to Body Heat and the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the state.
- Subject
- Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism
- Crime in literature
- American fiction > Florida > History and criticism
- Detective and mystery films > United States > History and criticism
- Detective and mystery television programs > United States > History and criticism
- Florida > In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. West Comes East / Steve Glassman -- 2. John D. MacDonald and Travis McGee: Heroes for Our Time / Ed Hirshberg -- 3. Florida's Crime and Detective Fiction through 1945 / Bill Brubaker -- 4. The Rules Are Different Here: South Florida Noir and the Grotesque / Julie Sloan Brannon -- 5. Miami Noir: The Woman's Vantage Point / Sarah D. Fogle -- 6. Noir: Keys' Style / Harold Nugent and Susan Nugent -- 7. Paradise Noir: Land of Gold, Moon, and Pixie Dust / Anna Lillios -- 8. Ecological Noir / Maurice O'Sullivan -- 9. Fairy Tale Noir / Maurice O'Sullivan -- 10. North Florida Noir: A Southern Perspective / Steve Glassman -- 11. Subtropical Film Noir / Ellen Smith -- 12. A Bibliography of Florida Mysteries, 1895-1996 / Maurice O'Sullivan and Lynne Phillips.
- ISBN
- 0879727497 (cloth)
- 0879727500 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 97015074
- OCLC
- ocm36960988
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries