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This is an ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.

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Author:   Philippa Gates
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9781438434049

ISBN 10:   1438434049
Pages:   410
Publication Date:   22 April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Part I. The Crime Lab: Gender and the Detective Genre 1. Introduction: The Case 2. Detecting Criticism: Theorizing Gender and the Detective Genre Part II. The Rise and Demise of the Classical Female Detective: 1929 to 1950 3. Movie Modernization: The Film Industry and Working Women in the Depression 4. Detecting as a Hobby: Amateur and Professional Detectives in the 1930s 5. Sob Sisters Don't Cry: The Girl Reporter as Detective in the 1930s 6. In Name Only: The Transformation of the Female Detective in the 1940s 7. The Maritorious Melodrama: The Female Detective in 1940s Film Noir Part III. From Crime-Fighter to Crime Scene Investigator: 1970 to Today 8. Femme Might Makes Right: The 1970s Blaxploitation Vigilante Crime-Fighter 9. Detecting the Bounds of the Law: The Female Lawyer Thriller of the 1980s 10. Detecting Identity: From Investigative Thrillers to Crime Scene Investigators Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Notes Selected Filmography Works Cited Index

Reviews

An apt follow-up to Gates' Detecting Men ... this book is breezy, informal, and yet immaculately researched. - CHOICE Detecting Women is an extensive and authoritative, ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009. Gates brings to light the sheer number of female detectives that have been overlooked in previous studies of the genre, especially those of the 1930s and 40s. Her innovative, engaging, and capacious approach to the female detective within feminist film history breaks new ground in the fields of gender and film studies. - SirReadaLot.org This imaginative and entertaining study of the 'woman detective' film makes a huge contribution by giving extensive treatment to the female detectives in B movies and to the many investigating women characters in films not usually considered detective films. It will have great appeal for scholars, film buffs, and mystery fans. - Linda Mizejewski, author of Hardboiled and High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture

Author Information

Philippa Gates is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario. She is the author of Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film, also published by SUNY Press, and coeditor (with Stacy Gillis) of The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film.

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