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

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

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Series: Crime Files

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0333776690
ISBN13: 9780333776698
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 9 2000
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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