Dark Places by Darrell A Hamlin
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.-
Defenses Against the Dark Arts
- Shakespeare and Politics in Film Adaptations
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Philosophical Perspective on Cinema
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Flannery OConnor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness
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From Ideology to Nostalgia
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Between Science and Society
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Baudelaire Contra Benjamin
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Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation
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Filming the First
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Film and Faith
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The Architecture of Survival
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Age of Anxiety
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American Epic
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The Final Frontier
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Promoting Postcolonial Australia
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Lincoln's Shakespearean Education
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The Politics of Violence Against Women in Climate Fiction
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Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism
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The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion
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The American Road Trip and American Political Thought
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Why Moralize upon It?
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Popular Culture and Foreign Policy
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The United States Constitution in Film
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Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction
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Rabelais's Contempt for Fortune
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Updike and Politics
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Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges
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The Coen Brothers and the Comedy of Democracy
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Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand
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Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition
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AIDS-Trauma and Politics
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Wicked Leadership in Film
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Aldous Huxley
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A Prophet of Modern Delusions
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Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes
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The Limits of Politics
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Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer
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Mad Men
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Milton's Socratic Rationalism
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Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda
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Out of a Gray Fog
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Game of Thrones and the Theories of International Relations
“Dark Places: Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy is an excellent and timely addition to the growing body of critical work on James EllroyIt combines an academic and hardboiled style, which provides new insights on every page from a varied range of contributors.”
-- Steven Powell, author of Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury: 2023)Joseph Romance is independent scholar who taught political science and political theory for over 20 years at Drew University and Fort Hays State University.
Darrell A. Hamlin is associate professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Civic Leadership at Fort Hays State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781666926002 |
| ISBN 10 | 1666926000 |
| Title | Dark Places |
| Author | Darrell A Hamlin |
| Series | Politics Literature And Film Ser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Year published | 2023-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
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