Dark Places
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Dark Places

Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy

  1. 231 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Dark Places

Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: James Ellroy’s California
  8. Chapter 2: Through the Eyes of Les Femmes: James Ellroy’s Gender Politics of “Killing Women to Save Them”
  9. Chapter 3: Black Dahlia and Aesthetic Crimes
  10. Chapter 4: Dark Mirror: The Resisting Reader and the Crime Writing of James Ellroy
  11. Chapter 5: There Is No Honor in LA: Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential, the Violent Detective, and Systems of Harm
  12. Chapter 6: Policing, Corruption, and Criminality: The Politics of the Legitimate Use of Force and the Rule of Law in James Ell oy’s LA Quartet
  13. Chapter 7: The Guy Who Gets Away with It: Law, Justice, and Violence in the Film LA Confidential
  14. Chapter 8: Ellroy’s Wetworkers: Soldiers and Spooks, Paramilitaries and Assassins, Cops, G-Men, Wise Guys, Latinos, and Gringos in the Underworld USA Trilogy
  15. Chapter 9: Knowledge Is Danger: The Kennedy Assassination in Ellroy and Don DeLillo
  16. Conclusion
  17. Index
  18. About the Contributors