Dark places : crime and politics in the personal noir of James Ellroy /
"Emphasizing themes of politics, art, history, memory, and crime, these interdisciplinary chapters illuminate the darkness present in the fiction and nonfiction of critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Ellroy. The book offers broad disciplinary perspective, with insights and argumen...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2024]
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| Series: | Politics, literature, & film.
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Table of Contents:
- James Ellroy's California / Susan McWilliams
- Through the eyes of les femmes : James Ellroy's gender politics of "killing women to save them" / Deirdre Condit
- Black Dahlia and aesthetic crimes / Erik Anderson
- Dark mirror : the resisting reader and the crime writing of James Ellroy / Lexey Barlett
- There is no honor in LA : Ellroy's L.A. Confidential, the violent detective, and systems of harm / Caitlin B. Coulter
- Policing, corruption, and criminality : the politics of the legitimate use of force and the rule of law in James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet / Jeffrey Becker
- The guy who gets away with it : law, justice, and violence in the film LA confidential / Paul Babbitt
- Ellroy's wetworkers : soldiers and spooks, paramilitaries and assassins, cops, GMen, wise guys, Latinos, and Gringos in the Underworld USA trilogy / W. John Green
- Knowledge is danger : the Kennedy Assassination in Ellroy and Don DeLillo / Joseph Romance
- Conclusion : James Ellroy and the dark criminal vision of American politics / Darrell A. Hamlin.
