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PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

ISBN-101476669112

ISBN-139781476669113

eBay Product ID (ePID)240152213

Product Key Features

Book TitleFunny Thing about Murder : Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films

Number of Pages217 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicMurder / General, Mystery & Detective, General, Popular Culture

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, True Crime, Social Science, Humor

AuthorDavid Geherin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight10.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-036638

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal809.387209358

Table Of ContentTable of Contents Preface Introduction Part I: Crime Fiction delete21 Rex Stout (1886-1975) Jonathan Latimer (1906-1983) Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) Craig Rice (1908-1957) Norbert Davis (1909-1949) Edmund Crispin (1921-1978) Ed McBain (1926-2005) Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) Joseph Wambaugh (1937-) Robert B. Parker (1932-2010) Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) William Marshall (1944-) Simon Brett (1945-) Lawrence Block (1938-) Martha Grimes (1931-) Sue Grafton (1940-) Kinky Friedman (1944-) Carl Hiaasen (1953-) Joan Hess (1949-) Janet Evanovich (1943-) Andrea Camilleri (1925-) Colin Bateman (1962-) Fred Vargas (1957-) Ken Bruen (1951-) Alexander McCall Smith (1948-) Ben Rehder (1965-) Christopher Fowler (1953-) Craig Johnson (1961-) Lisa Lutz (1970-) Timothy Hallinan (1949-) Part II: Crime Films Killers, Crooks, Kidnappers Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Too Many Crooks (1959) Take the Money and Run (1969) Raising Arizona (1987) A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Miami Blues (1990) Pulp Fiction (1994) Get Shorty (1995) Jackie Brown (1997) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000) Bandits (2001) In Bruges (2008) Heist/Caper Films The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) The Ladykillers (1956) Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) Topkapi (1964) How to Steal a Million (1966) The Italian Job (1969 and 2003) The Sting (1973) Bottle Rocket (1996) Fargo (1996) Ocean's Eleven (2001) Cops A Shot in the Dark (1964) Beverly Hills Cop (1984) The Guard (2011) Detectives, Amateur and Private The Thin Man (1934) Murder by Death (1976) and The Cheap Detective (1978) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) Sherlock (BBC, 2010-) 184 Bibliography Index

SynopsisFocusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor into their work and identifies the various comic techniques they use. The author covers both American and European books from the 1930s to the present, by such authors as Rex Stout, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich, along with films from The Thin Man to the BBC's Sherlock series., Focusing on crime fiction, film and television that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this comprehensive study explores the reasons why writers and filmmakers inject humour into their work and identifies the various comic techniques they use. The author covers both American and European books, film and television from the 1930s to the present.

LC Classification NumberPS374.D4G393 2017