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Perry Mason

by J.Dennis Bounds
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Overview

This is the first systematic look at Erle Stanley Gardner's character Perry Mason. Bounds uses a combination of neoformalist and production of culture approaches and explores the characters and situations of the lawyer/detective narrative of Perry Mason, showing how it has been created, produced, and reproduced over time, in different media. Relying on archival data and detailed textual analysis, this book identifies a complex series of stylistic devices and motivations that govern each production, ultimately presenting an insightful look at a well-known figure in American popular culture. This book contains an exhaustive list of the various manifestations of Perry Mason in novels, films television, radio, comic strips, and other forms.

About the Author, J.Dennis Bounds

J. DENNIS BOUNDS is Assistant Professor at Regent University in Virginia, where he teaches television and film writing, history, and theory.

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Documents the cultural and monetary significance of the Perry Mason legacy, which spans most of the 20th century and contains 82 original Mason novels and three shorter works. There are also 271 television episodes, 3,221 radio episodes, 20-some made-for-television films, six motion pictures, and various spin-off items such as comic books and board games. Chapters cover genre and authorship, narrative and form, neoformalism and transmedia poetics, the adaptation of Perry Mason to the cinema, Perry Mason on radio, and formula and variation in the television series. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book Details

Published
October 30, 1996
Publisher
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780313298097

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