Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.
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 publised by SUNY Press, and coeditor (with stacy Gillis) of The devit himself: Villanity in Detective Fiction and Film
List of Illustrations
p. vii
Acknowledgments
p. ix
The crime lab: Gender and the Detective Genre
Introduction: The Case
p. 3
Detecting Critism: Theorizing Gender and the Detective Genre
p. 17
The rise and Demise of the Classical Female Detective 1929 to 1950
Movie Modernization: The Film Industry and Working Women in the depression
p. 43
Detecting as a Hobby: Amateur and Professional Detectives in the 1930s
p. 69
Sob Sisters Don't Cry: The Girl Reporter as Detective in the 19305
p. 93
In Name Only: The Transformation of the Female Detective in the 1940s
p. 135
The Maritorious Melodrama: The Female Detective in 1940s: Film Noir
p. 163
From Crime-Fighter to Crime Scene Investigator 1970 to today
Femme Might Makes Right: The 1970s Blaxploitation Vigilante Crime-Fighter
p. 191
Detecting the Bounds of the Law: The Female Lawyer Thriller of the 1980s
p. 221
Detecting Identity: From Investigative Thrillers to Crime Scene investigators
p. 257
p. 299
p. 301
p. 331
Notes
p. 333
Selected Filmography
p. 353
Works Cited
p. 361
Index
p. 375
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