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EKSAMEN: Crime in Fiction
The course explores crime fiction by looking at literature, TV and film. Students will acquire knowledge about crime fiction as a genre, the three periods, focusing in particular on characters and stereotypes, setting and narrative technique.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Account for the typical genre characteristics of crime fiction and comment on the narrative technique using academic terms such as whodunit, howcatchem, narrator and point of view, suspense, surprise, reveal, red herring.
- Account for which elements within a crime fiction story belongs to either the Early Crime Fiction, The Golden Age or the Modern Crime Fiction period.
- Identify and characterise different stereotypes within the genre such as the classic detective who solves murder mysteries based on logic and deduction, the hardboiled American loner fighting injustice and corruption, and the psychologically complex – and often deranged – killer.
- Describe the typical settings of crime fiction and draw parallels between these and the real world
Film, serier and texts:
-Grarup og Ravn; "Analysing Crime Stories" pp.169-178; Crime in Fiction; Systime; 1994
- Tine Rønlev Eriksen: Case Reopened (2017), pp.7-16
- Sherlock: a Study in Pink (2010), dir. Paul McGuigan
- Agatha Christie; POIROT INVESTIGATES - The mystery of The Hunter's lodge (1924)
- Lee Child: “Guy Walks Into a Bar” (2009)
- Jeff Lindsey: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)
-Season 1, Episode 7: Problem at Sea; Hercule Poirot, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFjRNeMknPA
- Se7en (1995), dir. David Finch
Omfang: ca. 100 normalsider
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We will also include students' presentations:
Eleverne inddrages vha mundtlige præsentationer til at få en større forståelse af perioderne samt begreber.
Why Read a Crime Fiction Story?
The three periods: Early Crime Fiction, The Golden Age, Modern Crime Fiction
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