From do-nothing to detective: The transformation of Robert Audley in Lady Audley's Secret
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novel Lady Audley's Secret illustrates many changes occurring in contemporary society in nineteenth-century England with regard to policing and social control by representing these changes in through Braddon's hero, Robert Audley with the role as reluctant detective, he becomes a vehicle by which the society is imposed upon Lady Audley and an advocate for this mode of social control is presented. Through gradual transformation in the novel Braddon's previous asocial behaviour has disappeared and is now 'model citizen' of his time and has become the epitome of new method of social control and modern detective agent.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 2006
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A tooth for a private eye: James Ellroy's detective fiction
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The formula of Ellroy's writing pertains more to mystification than to elucidation in which he brings to light his symbolic guilt over loss of his mother as well as specificity of his narratives which appears driven not so much by desire to find real criminal, a gesture that in turn explains the buildup of corruption and violence with which Ellroy's fiction challenges the noir genre is presented. The Ellroyian detective fails to identify real criminal as he actively works to accuse somebody else thereby becoming a criminal himself and exposing the deeper logic of accusation.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 2006
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The Ed Sullivan Show and the (censored) sounds of the Sixties
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Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and the Doors, celebrated composer/performers of the 1960s, faced objections to the lyrical content of particular songs, and were subjected to censorship and instructed to change the lyrics when appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show. Although they responded differently to the instruction, the examples illustrate the perennial concern of the censor of popular culture with the themes of sex, drugs and politics, and reiterates that the American tradition that supports free expression often conflicts with its cultural biases in favor of repression.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 2006
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