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Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and the Detective Fiction Genre

In six pages this paper examines the detective genre as represented in this critical assessment of Walter Mosley's novel. There a...

Tony Hillerman's Skinwalkers and Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress

In three pages these novels are contrasted and compared in terms of how the plot movement is generated by the characters. There a...

Comparative Analysis of Walter Mosley's Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned and Devil in a Blue Dress

not be difficult to find for she is a white woman who is attracted to black men as well as jazz. In essence, Rawlins feels she wil...

Easy Rawlins in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Moseley

complicity exists in a form based both in professionalism and in the role of individuals as an extension of this community. It ...

The American Dream and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

that "the one who dies with the most toys wins" which is illustrative of the desire so many people have to own the best house, the...

The Geography of Fiction California in the Writings of Kellerman and Mosley

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the way in which the geography of the state of California is repre...

4 Western Literary Works and Free Will

In 6 pages the theme of free will as it appears in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, King Lear by William Shakespeare, Docto...

Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and Racism

This research paper/essay examines a detective novel by Walter Mosley and whether or not an African American writer can examine co...

Walter Mosely's American Dream Reflections in Devil in a Blue Dress

In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...

Contrasts Between the World Perspectives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Wf Walter Mosley

In 6 pages this paper examines the contrasting worldviews featured in the detective works White Butterfly by Walter Mosley and The...

An Analysis of the Film, Devil in a Blue Dress

This paper analyzes the murder mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress. The author divides the paper into three sections of contextual inte...

Carl Franklin's Filmmaking and Screenwriting Works

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett III

In six pages the ways in which Hammett's novel rejuvenated what had become by that time a tired detective fiction genre are explor...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

'Equal Opportunity' Chapter in Walter Mosley's Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

miles and miles from Socrates home. He gaped at the glittering palace as he strode across the hot asphalt parking lot" (NA). The d...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Male Gaze and Cross Dressing as Featured in the 1982 Film Tootsie

In six pages this paper analyzes cross dressing featured in the 1982 film Tootsie through the male gaze theories of feminist autho...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

African American Theater and Blues and the Influential Works of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

a line stating the mood of the singer repeated three times. The stress and variation is carried by the tune and the whole thing w...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

Langston Hughes' Blues Poetry

and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...

Affirmative Action and a Reaction to Albert Mosley's Essay

beliefs of White males who perceive themselves as suffering from Affirmative Action policies. Mosley readily admits that Whites ...

Walter L. Arnstein's Queen Victoria

on Queen Victoria allows the reader to judge for themselves if the book may be worthy of note from the beginning. And, what seems ...

Walter Moseley, Toni Morrison, and Social Commentary

In five pages the social commentary featured in Walter Moseley's White Butterfly and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are contrasted...

Se7en and The Maltese Falcon Film Comparison

it. He disposes of his deceased colleagues desk, nameplate and widow in quick measure. Naturally, since the police are aware of ...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

In six pages the ways in which this novel reflects the classic detective genre as established by Arthur Conan Doyle are considered...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett II

In five pages this paper examines the detective literary genre and how this work represents it as well as deviates from it by alwa...

Detective Fictuon and 'Silence of the Lambs' vs. 'Oedipus the King'

In a research paper consisting of 6 pages, the two works of good and evil are considered within the context of detective fiction. ...