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 106-246 Popular Fiction

Note

Available as 106-346 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Semester

1

Contact

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject takes popular fiction as a specific field of cultural production. Students will analyse various definitive features of that field: popular fiction's relations to 'literature', genre and identity, gender and sexuality, the role of the author profile, cinematic and TV adaptations, readerships and fan interests, and processing venues. The subject is built around a number of genres: crime fiction, science fiction, the romance, the 'sex and shopping' novel, the thriller and the blockbuster.

Assessment

Written work of up to 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • A C Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Penguin.
  • H G Wells, The War of the Worlds. Penguin.
  • A Christie, A Murder is Announced. Harper Collins.
  • I Fleming, Dr No.
  • T Harris, The Silence of the Lambs. Mandarin.
  • J Ellroy, American Tabloid. Arrow.
  • S King, The Shining. ..
  • A Rice, Interview with a Vampire. Warner Books.
  • A McCaffrey, Dragonsdawn. Corgi.
  • M Crichton, Jurassic Park. Arrow.
  • W Gibson, Idoru. Penguin.
  • J Collins, Hollywood Kids.
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