The American Thriller Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s

Title:

ISBN:

9780333985120

Personal Author:

Cobley, P. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2000.

Publication Information New:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.

Physical Description:

IX, 242 p. online resource.

Series:

Crime Files,

Abstract:

What is the American thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period - the 1970s. Analysing seventies texts about crime, police, detectives, corruption, paranoia and revenge, The American Thriller aims to open debates on genre in the light of audience theory, literary history and the place of popular fiction at the moment of its production.

Subject Term:

Literature -- Philosophy.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Fiction.

Literature, Modern -- 20th century.

America -- Literatures.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

North American Literature.