Popular Fiction: Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading
In: Routledge Revivals Series
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Preface to the Reprinted Edition -- Contents -- Series editors' preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Section 1 Popular fictions and cultural technologies -- Introduction -- 1 The technology and the society -- 2 On screen, in frame: film and ideology -- 3 Broadcast TV as cultural form -- 4 'While Millicent bucked and writhed . . .' -- Section 2 Fictioning the nation -- Introduction -- 5 Apprehensions of time -- 6 The language of detection -- 7 Scotland and cinema: the iniquity of the fathers -- 8 Representing the nation -- Section 3 Pleasure, gender, sexuality: feminist reappraisals -- Introduction -- 9 Afterthoughts on 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' inspired by Duel in the Sun -- 10 Women in film noir -- 11 Sexual disguise and cinema -- 12 The search for tomorrow in today's soap operas -- Section 4 Knowledge, power, ideology: detective fiction -- Introduction -- 13 From the flâneur to the detective: interpreting the city of Poe -- 14 Clues -- 15 Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method -- 16 Deconstructing the text: Sherlock Holmes -- Section 5 Production -- Introduction -- 17 Send-up: authorship and organization -- 18 The making of (the) MTM (show) -- 19 Made in Ealing -- 20 Out of what past? Notes on the B film noir -- Section 6 Reading -- Introduction -- 21 The operational aesthetic -- 22 Peter Pan and the commercialization of the child -- 23 Figures of Bond -- 24 Television and gender -- Bibliography -- Index.
