20-50
A01=David Geherin
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American fiction
Author_David Geherin
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Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=APFN
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Category=DSB
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Category=WH
COP=United States
crime fiction
crime in films
crime in literature
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detective and mystery stories
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eq_biography-true-stories
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film studies
humor
humor in films
humor in literature
Language_English
mystery
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popular literature
Price_€20 to €50
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softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781476669113
- Weight: 290g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Nov 2017
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Focusing 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.
David Geherin, a professor emeritus of English at Eastern Michigan University, is the author of ten books on crime fiction, two of which were finalists for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe Award. He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
