Philippa Gates is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, and is the coeditor (with Stacy Gillis) of The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film.

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Acknowledgments

PART I
The Crime Lab-Theorizing Masculinity and the Detective Genre

1. Introduction: The Case

2. The Myths of Masculinity

Part II
Investigating Masculinity-The 1940s and the 1980s

3. Investigating National Heroes: British Sleuths and American Dicks

4. Investigating Crisis: Neo-Noir Heroes and Femmes Fatales

5. Investigating Crisis: The Spectacle of "Musculinity"

Part III
Investigating the Crime Scene-The 1990s and 2000s

6. Investigating the Hero: The Criminalist

7. Investigating the "Other": Race and the Detective

8. Investigating the "Other": Women and Youth

9. Investigating the "Other": The Cult of Villainy

10. End of the Investigation: Case Closed

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Filmography
Works Cited
Index