Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction (Crime Files)

This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such landmark collection since Lee Horsley's __The Noir Thriller__, it extends the argument for serious, academic study of crime fiction, particularly in relation to gender, domestic violence, social and political awareness, psychological acuity, and structural and narratological inventiveness. As well as this, it shifts the debate around the sub-genre firmly up to date and brings together a range of global voices to dissect and situate the notion of 'domestic noir'. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and fans of the psychological thriller. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Introduction to Domestic Noir (Laura Joyce)....Pages 1-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 The Literary Antecedents of Domestic Noir (Fiona Peters)....Pages 11-25 Hollywood and the Trailblazers of Domestic Noir: The Case of Vera Caspary’s Laura (1943) (Stefania Ciocia)....Pages 27-49 Front Matter ....Pages 51-51 Gone Genre: How the Academy Came Running and Discovered Nothing Was As It Seemed (Henry Sutton)....Pages 53-69 From Cool Girl to Dead Girl: Gone Girl and the Allure of Female Victimhood (Eva Burke)....Pages 71-86 Front Matter ....Pages 87-87 “How Much Do You Want to Pay for This Beauty?”: Domestic Noir and the Active Turn in Feminist Crime Fiction (Emma V. Miller)....Pages 89-113 Teenage Kicks: Performance and Postfeminism in Domestic Noir (Leigh Redhead)....Pages 115-135 The Violent Mother in Fact and Fiction (Nicoletta Di Ciolla, Anna Pasolini)....Pages 137-158 Front Matter ....Pages 159-159 “[T]he People that Should Have Lived Here”: Haunting, the Economy, and Home in Tana French’s Broken Harbour (Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins)....Pages 161-179 The Subversion of the Male Tradition in Crime Fiction: Liane Moriarty’s Little Lies (Elena Avanzas Álvarez)....Pages 181-198 Domestic Noir and the US Cozy as Responses to the Threatened Home (Diane Waters, Heather Worthington)....Pages 199-218 Front Matter ....Pages 219-219 The House and the Hallucination in Tana French’s New Irish Gothic (Rosemary Erickson Johnsen)....Pages 221-238 Crime, the Domestic, and Social Commentary in Pierre Lemaitre’s Thrillers (Andrea Hynynen)....Pages 239-259 Carmen’s Final Problem: Contesting Crime Fiction and Gender Roles in Marcela Serrano’s Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (Patricia Catoira)....Pages 261-279 Back Matter ....Pages 281-292 This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such landmark collection since Lee Horsley's The Noir Thriller, it extends the argument for serious, academic study of crime fiction, particularly in relation to gender, domestic violence, social and political awareness, psychological acuity, and structural and narratological inventiveness. As well as this, it shifts the debate around the sub-genre firmly up to date and brings together a range of global voices to dissect and situate the notion of 'domestic noir'. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and fans of the psychological thriller--back cover