Crime and Mystery (Panel / In-Person)


Special Session
Genres and Audiences

Clare Rolens (Palomar College)
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Cheryl Edelson (Chaminade University of Honolulu)
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This special session is dedicated to the study of crime, mystery, and detective genre literature, cinema, radio, television, comics, video games, and podcasts.
From Wilkie Collins' epistolary detective genre-defining novel The Moonstone (1868) to the twenty-first century dominance of true crime podcasts and serialized television series, crime and mystery texts across the globe demand scholarly attention. This session seeks to engage critically with a whole host of crime, mystery, and detective texts as a way to examine the conceptual, philosophical, cultural, and historical resonances of a genre characterized by shadows and deception, spies and sleuths, feints and traps, and the titillating tensions between truth and fiction. The session is open to all modes and forms as well, including the popular literary works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler to the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray, as well as the many popular radio dramas, streaming documentaries, and police/court procedural serials.