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Reassessing Murder, She Wrote

The Afterlives of a Popular Culture Phenomenon

Eva Burke, JENNIFER SCHNABEL (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-57263-5 (ISBN)
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This book provides a critical overview of the cultural impact of the Murder, She Wrote TV series and it’s paratextual elements including board and video games, podcasts, fan conventions, collectible figures, and ghostwritten novels. It also explores the series’ position within the crime genre, particularly it’s engagement with earlier iterations of the ‘lady detective’.

Bringing together a broad range of experts, the book includes contributions from both academics and crime fiction novelists to offer a wide-ranging view of this popular series and its afterlives.

Suitable for scholars and students working on popular culture, crime fiction, TV studies or fan studies, this collection provides an interdisciplinary analysis of one of the most successful and enduring female-fronted detective series in history.

Eva Burke completed her PhD, funded by the Irish Research Council, at the school of English at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Dr. Clare Clarke. Her research looks at domestic noir fiction, specifically the work of Gillian Flynn. Eva has published work in the Journal of International Women’s Studies, Feminist Spaces, Trinity Postgraduate Review, and the 2018 edited collection From the Domestic to the Dominant: The New Face of Crime Fiction, published by Palgrave Macmillan. She also co-edited a special ‘domestic noir’ issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection. Jennifer Schnabel is associate professor and English subject librarian at The Ohio State University. She contributes scholarly book reviews to Clues: A Journal of Detection and Crime Fiction Studies, and her own research explores women and crime fiction. She recently co-chaired the Mystery & Detective Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association and is the Research Support Officer for the International Crime Fiction Association.

Introduction. Part I: J.B. Fletcher, Writing, and Genre 1. The Fairest of Them All: Jessica Fletcher’s Reign of the Queen of Mystery in Murder, She Wrote 2. Women Writing for Television’s Woman Writer: The Fourteen Women Writers of Murder, She Wrote 3. Murder She Wrote: Bridging the Gap Between the Golden Age and Cosy Mysteries Part II: Jessica Fletcher, Gender, and Detection 4. Misogyny She Wrote: How Murder, She Wrote Typifies the Backlash Against Feminism 5. “This Woman Has a Brilliant Criminal Mind”: Information Behavior of a Widow Woman from Maine 6. The Undercover Feminism of Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote Part III: Environments and Global Impact of Murder, She Wrote 7. “...Something sultry and seductive about this place”: New Orleans in the Murder, She Wrote Imagination8. “Norman Rockwell-land” or “Death Capital of Maine”? Race, Social Status, and Parochialism as Factors in the Perceived ‘Coziness’ of Crime in Reagan-Era Cabot Cove 9. From Murder, She Wrote to La Signora in Giallo: Jessica Fletcher as a Pop Culture Icon in Italy 10. “Now, am I imagining things, or isn't that a little fairy person there in among the flowers?”: Constructions of ‘Ireland’ in Murder, She Wrote Part IV: Influences, Intertextuality, and Echoes 11. ‘Agatha Christie’s ghost may strike you dead!’: Murder, She Wrote and an Agatha Christie Sense of Murder, Mark Aldridge 12. Death in Plastic: A Ludonarrative Analysis of Murder, She Wrote: The Game and Murder on Madison Avenue 13. Re-watching Murder, She Wrote: An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of Queer Fandom and Race.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.3.2025
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-57263-9 / 1032572639
ISBN-13 978-1-032-57263-5 / 9781032572635
Zustand Neuware
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