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Dark Places
Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy
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2023
Summary
James Ellroy has mined the darkest corners of the American experience, public and private, to paint a landscape of corrupt hearts, minds, and institutions. Ellroy is particularly notable for exploring the connection between the murder of his own mother, when he was ten years old, and his troubled adolescence and early adulthood struggles with addiction. “Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively,” he wrote in the memoir My Dark Places. Dark Places: Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy will explore connections between politics, art, history, memory, and crime -- Ellroy’s personal noir. The editors here present an interdisciplinary collection of essays, each with insight and argument into the pressurized, and at times, highly personal literary production of one of the most critically and commercially successful authors of our time. These contributions, scholarly yet accessible, offer compelling and provocative maps into the terrain of Ellroy’s fiction and non-fiction, drawing focus as well on film adaptations of his work.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-2600-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-2601-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
224
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 1: James Ellroy’s California No access Pages 13 - 28
Chapter 2: Through the Eyes of Les Femmes: James Ellroy’s Gender Politics of “Killing Women to Save Them” No access Pages 29 - 58
Chapter 3: Black Dahlia and Aesthetic Crimes No access Pages 59 - 80
Chapter 4: Dark Mirror: The Resisting Reader and the Crime Writing of James Ellroy No access Pages 81 - 110
Chapter 5: There Is No Honor in LA: Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential, the Violent Detective, and Systems of Harm No access Pages 111 - 128
Chapter 6: Policing, Corruption, and Criminality: The Politics of the Legitimate Use of Force and the Rule of Law in James Ellroy’s LA Quartet No access Pages 129 - 146
Chapter 7: The Guy Who Gets Away with It: Law, Justice, and Violence in the Film LA Confidential No access Pages 147 - 166
Chapter 8: Ellroy’s Wetworkers: Soldiers and Spooks, Paramilitaries and Assassins, Cops, G-Men, Wise Guys, Latinos, and Gringos in the Underworld USA Trilogy No access Pages 167 - 182
Chapter 9: Knowledge Is Danger: The Kennedy Assassination in Ellroy and Don DeLillo No access Pages 183 - 206
