HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: 100Plus, Whodunit, Police Procedural
27 Mar 2017
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Tends to involve law enforcement figures and criminal activity. Has a remarkable longevity and popularity in the past 150 years. Some important variations: the whodunit? the police procedural, the courtroom drama, the memoir mystery. Can be fused with a range of genre orientations: science-fiction, adventure, historical fiction, horror. Is popular in children"s and adolescent fiction: hardy boys nancy drew, encyclopedia. Remarkable durability as an icon of detective work. Reflected the scientific and cultural spirit of the last 19th century. Modeled on prof. joseph bell, doyle"s professor at edinburgh. Retained popularity for 100-plus years: recent incarnations include mr. holmes in film, Sherlock on television, and sherlock holmes starring david arquette in live theater. Embodies rationality, scientific inquiry, and personal quirkiness in the detective figure. Watson functions as reader/viewer stand-in relating to holmes. Holmes as described by watson in a study in scarlet (1887) Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Tells at a glance different soils from each other.
