British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order (Crime Files)

Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney" productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works.

Humor & Entertainment

Forshaw, Barry

Movies

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

It's one of the most successful—and surprising—of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and proto-detectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. Barry Forshaw has written a lively, wide-ranging and immensely informed history of the genre, which might be said to have begun in earnest with Ellis Peters’ crime-solving monk Brother Cadfael in the 1970s and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose in 1980 (with another monkish detective), but which has now taken readers to virtually every era and locale in the past. Forshaw has produced the perfect reader's guide to a fascinating field; every major writer is considered, often through a concentration on one or two key books, and exciting new talents are highlighted.

Historical Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Fiction, Film & TV (Pocket Essential series)

Pocket Essentials

There are few contemporary guides that cover everything from the golden age to current bestselling writers from America, Britain and all across the world, but the award-winning Barry Forshaw, one of the UK's leading experts in the field, has provided a truly comprehensive survey with definitive coverage. Every major writer is included, long with many other more esoteric choices.

Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Oldcastle Books

Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw's informed and lively study draws together Georges Simenon's extraordinary life and his work on both page and screen. Alongside his own considerable insights, Barry Forshaw has interviewed people who worked either with Simenon or on his books: publishers, editors, translators, and other specialist writers. He has created a literary prism through which to appreciate one of the most distinctive achievements in the whole of crime fiction.

Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

His best-selling books are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larsson was not there to witness any of their international success.   That his fame is entirely posthumous demonstrates the dizzying speed with which his star has risen. However, when one looks a little deeper at the man behind these phenomenal novels, it becomes clear that Larsson’s life would have been remembered as extraordinary, even if his Millennium trilogy had never been published.   Larsson was a workaholic: a keen political activist, photographer, graphic designer, a respected journalist and editor of numerous science fiction magazines... and at night, to relax after work, he wrote crime novels. As the world now knows, he had completed his third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by the time of his death at just 50 years of age. In The Man Who Left Too Soon, top crime fiction journalist Barry Forshaw gives us a fascinating insight into the life and works of this difficult, brilliant and multifaceted man.

The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Life and Works of Stieg Larsson

Bolinda Audio

A compact and authoritative guide to the phenomenally popular genre, by a leading expert in Scandinavian crime fiction
This information-packed study examines and celebrates books, films, and TV adaptations, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's highly influential Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander (subject of three separate TV series) to Stieg Larsson's groundbreaking The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; cult TV hits such as the Danish The Killing, The Bridge, and the political thriller Borgen; up to the massively successful books and films of the current king of the field, Norway's Jo Nesbø. It anatomizes the nigh-obsessive appeal of the subject and highlights every key book, film, and TV show. Aimed at both the beginner and the aficionado, this is a hugely informative, highly accessible guide to an essential crime genre.

Nordic Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Film & TV

Covering territory from Rififi to Run Lola Run to Spiral, a guide to the edgy, gritty best of European noir fiction, films, and television
The invasion of foreign crime fiction, films, and TV—and not just the Scandinavian variety—has opened up incredible new options for crime fiction lovers, but the sheer volume of new European writers and films can daunting. This book provides a highly readable guide for those wanting to look further than the obvious choices as well as a perfect shopping list for what to watch or read before that trip to Paris, Rome, or Berlin. Euro Noir presents a roadmap to the territory and is the perfect travel guide to the genre. From Italy, the guide discusses such influential authors as Andrea Camilleri and Leonardo Sciascia; Mafia crime dramas Romanzo Criminale and Gomorrah; and of the gruesome Gialli crime films. From France and Belgium, it covers important writers from Maigret's creator Georges Simenon to today's Fred Vargas; cult television programs Braquo and Spiral; and films from the classic heist movie Rififi to modern greats such as Hidden, Mesrine, and Tell No One. German and Austrian greats include Jakob Arjouni and Jan Costin Wagner, and such crime films as Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others. The best crime writing and filmmaking from Spain, Portugal, Greece, Holland, and other European countries are also covered.

Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film and TV (Pocket Essential series)

All major living writers, new and established, are covered and the characteristics of their different styles of writing are considered. The writers are also mapped across all regions of England as well as Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Brit Noir offers unique, lively insight and, not solely confined to British crime fiction novels, it also celebrates the new golden age of British crime drama and popular television programs such as Sherlock and Broadchurch.

Brit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to British Crime Fiction, Film & TV (Pocket Essential series)

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British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order (Crime Files)

Historical Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Fiction, Film & TV (Pocket Essential series)

Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide

Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films

British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order (Crime Files)

The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Life and Works of Stieg Larsson

Nordic Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Film & TV

Nordic Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Film & TV

Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film and TV (Pocket Essential series)

Brit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to British Crime Fiction, Film & TV (Pocket Essential series)