The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

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McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 232 pages

In this book the author examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and on TV. Chapters examine the portrayal of female investigators in each of these four genres: the Gothic novel, the lesbian detective novel, television and film.

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Acknowledgments
1
Lesbian Detectives Have Car Trouble
40
The SocioCultural Determinants of the Role of
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Lisa M. Dresner is a special assistant professor in the Department of English and Freshman Composition at Hofstra University. She lives in Forest Hills, New York.