Genre tropes

Question 1

What are the genre tropes of detective fiction?

Answer 1

1. the seemingly perfect crime; (2) the wrongly accused suspect at whom circumstantial evidence points; (3) the bungling of dim-witted police; (4) the greater powers of observation and superior mind of the detective; and (5) the startling and unexpected denouement, in which the detective reveals how the identity of the culprit was ascertained.

Question 2

What are the genre tropes of whodunit?

Answer 2

Self-referential
metafictional quality
critique of upper class societies
locked-room mysteries
often countryhouse settings

Question 3

What are the genre tropes of Hard-boiled?

Answer 3

Realistic portrayels of crime and society.
tough protagonist
violence
corruption
street language
urban setting
social critique
societal injustices

Question 4

What are the genre tropes of Film noir?

Answer 4

1.Stark high contrast lighting.
2. May be first person narration.
3. Femme fatale- (anna)
4. Noir hero-male (Bogart.)
5. violence
6. isolation
7. moral ambiguity.

Question 5

What is the genre tropes of the police procedural?

Answer 5

1.Narrative structure: criminal act, detection, solution
police routines as the method of resolution in its plot development.
2.Representation of investigative processes, of command, the way knowledge is shared and resources used.
3.Forensics, pshycological profiling, sophisticated scientific, techological support systems.
4.More female detectives.