Devil in a Blue Dress

• Author : Walter MOSLEY
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 08 October 2020

30th Anniversary edition of the bestselling, award-winning novel with a timely new introduction by the author.

• Author : Walter Mosley
• Publisher : Washington Square Press
• Release : 01 February 1997

Devil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect.

• Author : Walter Mosley
• Publisher : Washington Square Press
• Release : 06 October 2020

The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory

• Author : Charles E. Wilson
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 01 February 2023

Critiques such novels as "Devil in a Blue Dress" and "Bad Boy Brawley Brown," while providing biographical information about the African American author.

• Author : Mary C. Beltran,Camilla Fojas
• Publisher : NYU Press
• Release : 01 September 2008

A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation’s racial categories and borders. Mixed Race Hollywood is a pioneering compilation of essays on mixed-race romance, individuals, families, and stars in U.S. film and media culture. Situated at the cutting-edge juncture of ethnic studies and media studies, this collection

• Author : Dr Marc Singer,Dr Nels Pearson
• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Release : 28 April 2013

Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detective fiction has been linked to imperialism and constructions of race from its earliest origins, recent developments signal the evolution of the genre into a potent framework for narrating the complexities of identity, citizenship, and justice in a

• Author : Dan Flory
• Publisher : Penn State Press
• Release : 01 January 2008

"Examines how African-American as well as international films deploy film noir techniques in ways that encourage philosophical reflection. Combines philosophy, film studies, and cultural studies"--Provided by publisher.

• Author : Charles J. Rzepka
• Publisher : Polity
• Release : 30 September 2005

'Detective Fiction' is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood characters and texts of the modern day. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction and of genre fiction in general, will find this book essential reading.

• Author : Jack Boozer
• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• Release : 03 June 2009

Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central step in this transformation of a literary source to the screen is the writing of the screenplay. The screenplay usually serves to recruit producers, director, and actors; to attract capital investment; and to give focus to the conception and production of the film project. Often undergoing multiple revisions

• Author : Kathleen Gregory Klein
• Publisher : Popular Press
• Release : 01 February 1999

The distinguishing characteristic of the book is its mix of essays focusing on teaching cultural diversity in the classroom and illustrating diversity through fiction to the general readers."--BOOK JACKET.

• Author : Geoff Mayer,Brian McDonnell
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 01 February 2023

Film noir, its directors, actors, histories, and themes, are presented for the student, scholar, and film fan.

• Author : Agustín Reyes Torres
• Publisher : Universitat de València
• Release : 01 February 2023

Basat en la perspectiva de la identitat, la consciència i la subjectivitat dels estudiosos negres com Stuart Hall, Bell Hooks, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates, Jr i W. I. B. Du Bois, al costat de l’enfocament postcolonial de crítics com Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin i Homi Bhabha entre d’altres, aquest llibre proporciona el marc teòric necessari per a analitzar les novel·les d’Easy Rawlins escrites per Walter Mosley. L’autor s’apropia

• Author : Scott McCracken
• Publisher : Manchester University Press
• Release : 15 September 1998

Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the bestseller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction with detailed readings of particularly Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Colin Dexter, William Gibson, Stephen King, Iain Banks, Terry McMillan and Walter Mosley. Scott McCracken argues that popular fiction serves a vital function in the late twentieth century: it provides us with the means

• Author : Carlton D. Floyd,Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 01 February 2023

This book examines how rival interpretations of the American Dream poignantly express conflicts over its very meaning, revealing the dialectical tension therein, and awakening us to the distance between the Dream and our reality, in the light of its continued deferment and its price.

• Author : Ghent Urban Studies Team,Dirk De Meyer
• Publisher : 010 Publishers
• Release : 01 February 1999

What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized? How can the urban self still be defined? What role does