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"The American thriller developed in a distinctive way in the 1970s, generating exciting and interesting narratives about crime, police, detectives, corruption, paranoia and revenge. At a time when American political life seemed to be the very stuff of thrillers, the genre underwent a major transformation. But how can we know how these new thrillers were experienced in the period? How can we gain a sense of the ways in which they were read by contemporary audiences? This book seeks to address these questions by looking at films, TV programmes and print fiction from the 1970s By focusing on numerous thrillers, including Dirty Harry, Death Wish, Marathon Man, Shaft, Kojak, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Chinatown and All the President's Men, it explores the way that the reading of thrillers might be bound up in commonplace - but often neglected - relations."--Jacket
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