Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest

by Glassman, Steve; O'Sullivan, Maurice J.

• ISBN13: 9780879728465
• ISBN10: 0879728469
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State

Summary

When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman's oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart's tough hood in The Petrified Forest to Russell Crowe's hard-nosed cop in L.A. Confidential.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(5)
History of the Detective Story in the Southwest or: Who Came Before Hillerman?	6	(18)
Barry T. Zeman
Immigrants, Rednecks, and Cowboys: New Mexico Sleuths After Hillerman	24	(13)
Bill Ott
Cowboy Kitsch: Arizona Crime Fiction	37	(21)
Jill Colvin Jones
Murder in Rural Southern California: Drowning in the Desert	58	(16)
Sibylle Barrasso
All Bad Roads Lead to the Bad Town: Crime Nevada Style	74	(12)
Alan Pratt
Mormons, Mountains and the Sacred City: Utah Mystery Novels	86	(12)
Kate Rhodes
Round up the (Un)Usual Cowboys: Crime and Sleuthing in the High Country of Colorado	98	(14)
Barbara Barker
Nancy Pate
Bad Boys and Bad Girls of the Flatlands: Law & Disorder in Oklahoma Detective Fiction	112	(16)
Steve Glassman
Barbara Barker
Lone Star Crime and Detection: Women Mystery Writers of Texas Country	128	(16)
Lois A. Marchino
Urban Cowboy, Urban Cop: The Mean Streets of Texas	144	(19)
Sarah Fogle
Tony Hillerman and the Navajo Way	163	(14)
Maurice J. O'Sullivan
Rolling Toward the Horizon on Empty: Jim Thompson's West Texas Crime Fiction	177	(13)
Cyndy Hendershot
A Flash of Green: Fighting the Good Fight in the Badlands	190	(7)
Nancy Pate
Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Good Land: The Nonfiction Novel in the Southwest	197	(13)
Steve Glassman
Crime Film in the Southwest: The Changing Borders of Goodness and Evil	210	(18)
Ellen Smith
Conclusion: Westward Ho!	228	(7)
A Bibliography of Southwestern Crime Fiction	235	(36)
Maurice O'Sullivan
The Southwest	235	(2)
Arizona	237	(4)
Colorado	241	(6)
Nevada	247	(5)
New Mexico	252	(5)
Oklahoma	257	(2)
Texas	259	(10)
Utah	269	(2)
Contributors	271	(2)
Index	273