Crime Novels - Film and Literature: The Case of Crime Fiction

Film and Literature: The Case of Crime Fiction

Crime fiction and the motion picture industry have complemented each other well over the years. Both cater to the need of the average audience to escape into an idealist world, where the good reaps the rewards, and the bad incur their punishment. Adaptations of crime fiction into films have been hugely successful.

For a detailed explication of the history of the relationship between crime fiction and the film industry, see the main article crime film and mystery film.

Crime fiction has also expanded to the world of videogames, an example being the Ace Attorney series, in which players investigate a murder in order to prove a suspect innocent and find the true culprit.

Read more about this topic:  Crime Novels

Famous quotes containing the words film, case, crime and/or fiction:

    Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film.... You have to ask yourself if there’s anything about us more important than the fact that we’re constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.
    Don Delillo (b. 1926)

    Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
    Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

    After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
    Ben Maddow (1909–1992)

    A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
    Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)