UID:
almahu_9947988413302882
Format:
XII, 261 p. 19 illus.
,
online resource.
ISBN:
9783319990132
Series Statement:
Crime Files
Content:
This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography characterized by lascivious interest in female cadavers, dissection, morgues, femicide, and snuff movies. Hard-boiled and police procedural classics from the U.S. and the U.K. are juxtaposed with texts by established Spanish and Spanish American genre masters and with obscure works that prefigure the contemporary transmedial boom in corpse-centered fictions. The rhetoric and aesthetics of necropornographic crime fiction are related to those of popular crime journalism and forensic-science television dramas. This study argues that crime fiction has long fixated disproportionately on the corpses of beautiful young white women and continues to treat their deaths and autopsies as occasions for male visual pleasure, male subjective slf-affirmation and male homosocial bonding.
Note:
1 Introduction -- 2 Necropornography in Modern Crime Fiction -- 3 The Hispanic Hard-Boiled -- 4 Femicide and Snuff -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited Index .
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783319990125
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783319990149
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-99013-2
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99013-2
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