Book description
Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.
Why read it?
1 author picked Detecting Women as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a must-read if you are interested in women investigators in mainstream film, B movies, niche genres, or television.
Gates studies over 300 films and goes back to not only early cinema but even to 19th-century fiction that brought certain figures such as the sleuth, to the screen several decades later.
By exploring the evolution of women detectives, Gates addresses various topics such as women in the workforce, intellectual women, age, race, and sexuality. This historical analysis played a key role in my research on Scully beyond the chapter on women criminalists such as Clarice Starling in The Silence…
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