Raymond Chandler:crime-fiction

There are many conventions of the Crime Fiction genre, there are also many different examples of ways in which these conventions, along with different texts of the Crime Fiction genre, reflect and affect the societies and time periods in which they were produced. Two prime examples of the way crime fiction reflects and affects the society in which it was created are the movie "The Big Sleep" and the Patricia Cornwell novel "Unnatural Exposure". As …

…reflects and affects the society in which it is produced. This can be seen through the two texts, "The Big Sleep" and "Unnatural Exposure" - texts created over 50 years apart. The conventions and techniques which they employ to both reflect and affect society are numerous, and influence the way in which the responder views the text. Crime fiction in itself is a reflection of society's boundaries and values, shown in many different ways and forms.