Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1Charles J. Rzepka
Part I Topics and Themes 9
1 Nostalgia and Authenticity in Elmore Leonard’s Conflicted Heroes 11Michael Scrivener
2 Elmore Leonard and the Romantic Comedy, or “Get Some Love into It” 27Michael Sinowitz
3 The Sense of Place in Elmore Leonard’s Crime Fiction 41David Geherin
4 Visual Clues: Dress, Appearance, and Perception in Elmore Leonard’s Crime Fiction 57Frankie Y. Bailey
5 The Mozart of the Motor City: Elmore Leonard and Noir Buffa 73Kris Mecholsky
Part II Five Case Studies 93
6 The Man with Five Names: Hombre on Race and the Cinematic Western 95Korine Powers
7 Pitching Cinematic Identification in Get Shorty 113Philip Derbesy
8 “It’s the way they’re done”: Style and Legerdemain in Out of Sight 127Charles J. Rzepka
9 Moral Luck and Determinism in Rum Punch 147Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
10 Disjointed Djibouti: Elmore Leonard’s Final Metafiction 165George Grella and Charles J. Rzepka
Index 183