Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest - Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands

Klappentext When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman's oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In "Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, "a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart's tough hood in "The Petrified Forest "to Russell Crowe's hard-nosed cop in "L.A. Confidential." Zusammenfassung When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee! Tony Hillerman's oddly matched tribal police officers! patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation! they join a tradition of Southwestern detectives. In this book! a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Steve O&apos Glassman, Steve O''''sullivan Glassman, Maurice Sullivan
• Assisted by: Steve Glassman (Editor), Maurice O'Sullivan (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2005
• EAN: 9780879728465
• ISBN: 978-0-87972-846-5
• No. of pages: 310
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies