Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S The author gratefully acknowledges that financial support for this research was received, in its first stages, by the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Charitable Trust and, later, from a grant partly funded by Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) Operating funds and partly by the SSHRC Institutional Grant awarded to WLU. I would like to thank Susan Hayward, Lee Grieveson, Nadine Wills, Duncan Petrie, and Frank Krutnik for their insight , advice, and guidance. A special thank you also to James Peltz, Interim Director at SUNY Press, and Wheeler Winston Dixon, the series editor, for their support of this book and seeing it come to light. I would also like to thank my Hollywood detective film class of Winter 2005 for their enthusiasm and ideas—especially Jillian Harrington who encouraged me to reconsider the contributions of the female detective comedy. Finally, I would like to dedicate this book to Micaela and Philip Gates, without whose love and support this project would never have been realized. I would like to thank my mother for her exhaustive editorial assistance through the evolution of this project and my father, who ignited my passion for the detective genre with an introduction to Perry Mason through re-runs of the original television series. I am sure it was my parents’ own addiction to detective fiction that led me to Agatha Christie in the first place and then beyond. This is for you. The author is grateful for the kind permission to reproduce selections from the following copyrighted material: • An earlier version of Chapter 7—Investigating the “Other”: Race and the Detective—appeared as “Always a Partner in Crime: Black ix Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film,” by Philippa Gates, in The Journal of Popular Film and Television 32:1 (Spring 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Philippa Gates. Reproduced with permission of Heldref Publications, Washington, DC. • An earlier version of Chapter 8—Investigating the “Other”: Women and Youth—appeared as “Manhunting: The Female Detective in the Contemporary Serial Killer Film,” by Philippa Gates, in Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 24:1 (Fall 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Philippa Gates. Reproduced with permission of Post Script, Commerce, TX. • An earlier version of Chapter 9—Investigating the “Other”: The Cult of Villainy—appeared as “Getting Away with It: Villainy in the Contemporary Hollywood Detective Film,” by Philippa Gates, in Stacy Gillis and Philippa Gates, eds., The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film. Copyright © 2002 by Stacy Gillis and Philippa Gates. Reproduced with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT. x DETECTING MEN ...