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Bennett, Tony, ed. Popular Fiction: Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading. London: Routledge, 1990. Literary theoretical discussion of the apparatuses that produce and mediate popular fiction, including thrillers. Bloom, Clive, ed. Twentieth-Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age. London: Macmillan, 1990. A stimulating set of modern essays on the modern thriller. Cawelti, J. G. Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Best overall account of the multiplicity of modern popular fictional forms, including the thriller. Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-1990. New York and London: Garland, 1994. Exhaustively complete listing, with sublistings of such things as “Series Heroes” and film adaptations. Leavis, Q. D. Fiction and the Reading Public. Bellew Publishing Company, 1990. Classic moralistic denunciation of modern popular fiction, including the early 20th-century thriller. Palmer, Jerry. Thrillers. London: Edward Arnold, 1978. A critically sophisticated anatomy of modern thrillers. Reilly, John M., ed. Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Novels. London: Macmillan, 1980. An excellent biographically based directory. Sutherland, John. Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970s. London: Routledge, 1981. Contains discussions of British and American thrillers of the 1970s. Symons, Julian. Bloody Murder. Pan Books, 1994. The authoritative history of the crime and thriller genre. Watson, Colin. Snobbery with Violence. London: Methuen, 1987. Critically unsophisticated but highly enjoyable study of the British inter-war thriller.
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