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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"detectives"”.
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Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives.
… of forgivable and unforgivable acts. These detectives illustrate positive masculinity, proving that fiction has more uses than mere entertainment. In this paper, I trace four detectives, each from a different era. Sherlock Holmes lives to solve problems. His primary function is to solve a …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
The thesis examines how I might deploy the postmodern approaches of the metaphysical detective novel to represent a divided society’s quest to understand itself in the context of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Wary of the pitfalls of applying the certainties of traditional detective fiction to …
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US store detectives: the relationship between individual characteristics and job performance
… to gauge the individual efficacy of store detectives. In addition to job training, and job output supervision, research has indicated certain stable characteristics of individuals helps explain actual job performance, making pre-employment selection a critical part of process improvement. …
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Metaphysical detectives and postmodern spaces, or the case of the missing boundaries
Taking as its point of departure Henri Lefebvre's contention that "(Social) space is a (social) product," my dissertation explores the contemporary American novels of Pynchon, Acker, Reed, Auster, DeLillo, and McElroy as well as the two recent films Dark City and The Thirteenth Floor and their …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
In the early part of the twentieth century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
In the early part of the twentieth century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the …
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Algorithmic detectives against child trafficking : data, entrapment, and the new global policing network
My dissertation explores how "anti-trafficking" has emerged as a global network of humanitarian professionals, law enforcement, and software companies collaborating to address the issue of child exploitation and trafficking online. I argue that the anti-trafficking network consolidates expertise …
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Identidad narrativa en “detectives” de Roberto Bolaño y “el espejo” de Machado de Assis
… nos contos “O espelho”, de Machado de Assis, e “Detectives”, de Roberto Bolaño. Utiliza nas análises as teorias que integram o discurso narrativo com a experiência humana, especificamente as de Paul Ricoeur, incorporando por sua vez estudos literários sobre a intersubjetividade
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A Band of Sisters: Female Detectives, Authority, and Fiction from 1864 to the 1930s
… views in disguise. For fictional detectives and, especially female detectives, disguise is an effective tool for solving their cases. Often, these detectives will disguise themselves as someone infinitely more conservative than they are in order to gain access to their quarry. …
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Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects Arrested for Homicide Offences: The Working Practices of Detectives and Third Parties
… to critically explore the working practices of detectives and third parties involved in the detention and interviewing of vulnerable suspects, who have been arrested on suspicion of committing homicide (and attempted murder) offences in England and Wales.<br/><br/>Vulnerable suspects (juveniles …
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The ‘Failed’ Detectives: Failure as a Structure of Feeling in American Detective Fiction, 1914-1953
… and Hammett are bound together since their detectives take similar strategy of transforming the genre formula facing to the limitation of the genre, which results in opposite conclusions. Here the limitation of detective fiction is deeply rooted in Edgar Allan Poe’s failure in his founding …
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Transnational Crime Scenes and Travelling Detectives: Space and Movement in Crime Drama Series 2017-2023
This thesis examines changes in the constructions of space and movement in transnational crime drama series between 2017 and 2023. Focused on the timeframe between Brexit and the Covid pandemic, it argues that a significant shift within the crime genre is well underway. Following European …
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The killing consensus : homicide detectives, police that kill and organized crime in São Paulo, Brazil
… killing. Via ethnographic research with homicide detectives, I examine these two logics: homicides and police killings known as resistencias. Under democratic restructuring, with failing public security and underwritten by historic and spatial inequities inscribed via disparate processes of …
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Criminal Investigations: The Impact of Patrol Officers on Solving Crime
… investigations division and then examined how detectives spent their time, both on case assignments and on other activity not related to current case assignment. Cases assigned to the investigations division for follow up were examined to determine how often a case was cleared by the patrol …
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The science of sleuthing : the evolution of detective practice in English regional cities, 1836-1914
… nineteenth century, and the fascination with detectives and their sleuthing adventures endures today. Yet, despite the widespread interest, little is known about how the first professional police detectives developed their investigative skills. Police histories provide broad summaries rather …
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Questions and questioning in Montenegrin police interviews
… this study shows that when asking questions, detectives have in mind completing a range of smaller ‘jobs’ as well as solving the project in general. Thus, chapter 4 shows how while performing these jobs, close connection is exhibited between the linguistic form, epistemics and action. The …
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The Zumbrota
… in crime fiction and examine how serial detectives fit into the discussion of round and flat characters as defined by E.M. Forster and James Wood. Through the discussion of serial detectives as round and flat characters, I ultimately examine the fundamental differences between literary …
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An original script for the stage – Case 121: The Shadowless Corpse plus accompanying essay
… protagonist of the play (‘H’) is one of these detectives and the story follows one of his investigations as he aims to discover the culprit behind a murder that includes one such anomaly – the corpse is devoid of a shadow. The play is a pastiche in style of the film noir genre, using genre …
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