Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction xi
5. History and Theory
6. Coca-Colonials Write Back: Localizing the Global in Canadian Crime Fiction 3
7. Canadian Crime Writing in English 19
8. Essays on Fiction
9. Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade’s Gothic RCMP Procedurals 55
10. Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunt’s The Delicate Storm 83
11. Revisioning the Dick: Reading Thomas King’s Thumps DreadfulWater Mysteries 101
12. Generic Play and Gender Trouble in Peter Robinson’s in a Dry Season 123
13. A Colder Kind of Gender Politics: Intersections of Feminism and Detection in Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn Series 151
14. Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism and the Regulation of Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka’s Russell Quant Mystery Series 179
15. Under/Cover: Strategies of Detection and Evasion in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace Alias Grace 205
16. Essays on Television
17. Televising Toronto in the 1960s: Wojeck and the Urban Crime Drama 229
18. North of Quality? “Quality” Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of Durham County 257
19. Mounties and Metaphysics in Canadian Film and Television 275
20. Contributors 297
21. Index 301
22. Books in the Film+Media Studies Series 318