Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of
adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and
adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the
politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth
century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this.
It is about the mutually-informing interrelation of cultural texts
and political rhetoric, about the connection between the
popular-cultural depiction of crime and criminality and how we come
to understand human behaviour and culpability; most of all, it is a
detailed consideration of what the process of adaptation reveals
about the shifting nature of the world in which we live. With
specific reference to television series such as The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes Miss Marple. A Touch of Frost Cadfael, and Midsomer
Murders Adapting Detective Fiction uses adaptation as the basis for
an exercise in later twentieth-century cultural history,
illustrating the fundamental role detective fictions play in
popular beliefs about the nature of crime and Englishness.
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