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The following are reference ideas for Crime fiction. Click [show] for details. The following reference(s) may be useful when improving this article in the future: Conan, Neal;Mosley, Walter;Balcer, René (2009-08-05)."Why We Love Crime Fiction".Talk of the Nation.National Public Radio.Archived from the original on 2024-07-17. Retrieved2024-08-05.Philip Marlowe, Easy Rawlins, Lennie Briscoe — readers love the characters and the crimes they solve. Crime novels fly off the shelves, and crime dramas often stay at the top of the Nielsen ratings. Mystery writer Walter Mosley andLaw & Order executive producer Rene Balcer discuss the art of suspense.

"In Italy people commonly call a story about detectives or crimesgiallo (English: yellow), because books of crime fiction have usually had a yellow cover since the 1930s." I removed this from the lead section as it seemed very out of place there, but was not sure where exactly in the article this sentence would fit better. Some feedback would be appreciated, thank you!.WNYY98 (talk)02:32, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Crime novel redirects here, but it is a separate articles on many wikis: comparehttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208505 andhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5937792_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here}01:37, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Neither has en wiki article yet, they just redirect tomystery film for now. Several wikis have dedicatedd article to those topcis:https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2101714 vshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25533274_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here}01:44, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think there is potential to have standalone articles for both. "Mystery" is a weird redirect, I feel like "crime" would be the better one for now. As for comparing the two, detectives can be police or private, so I think there is space for a distinct detective-film article. Wikipedia as a whole is not great with film-genre articles, unfortunately. It involves more book research than individual films.Erik (talk | contrib)^{(ping me)}13:31, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The more I read into genre studies, the more convoluted terms like "Mystery film" or "Crime film" or "Detective film" or "Police film" become. Even in what one would think would be more discussed general genres (i.e: Thriller film), there is rarely agreed upon definitions of genre, and with that, less history, critical evaluation, etc. And when there is such a thing, its usually focused on the genre in terms that is very anglo-centric, usually referring to only American (more specifically Hollywood) or occasionally British overviews of genre. I've recently tried to flesh out these articles, but even with that, I feel like anyone reading it, would come away disappointed in the vagueness that are such commonly used terms.Andrzejbanas (talk)16:28, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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