tropescrime
Tropescrime is a term used in critical discussions to describe the systematic study of recurring narrative devices, or tropes, within crime fiction and related media. The word fuses tropes with crime to emphasize analysis of conventional storytelling patterns that recur across detective novels, thrillers, films, television series, and video games, as well as how these patterns are employed, subverted, or deconstructed by creators and received by audiences.
Origins and scope: the concept arose from online criticism and scholarly debate about genre conventions in
Key concepts and tropes: tropescrime examines a range of familiar devices, such as the brilliant but morally
Relation to other fields: tropescrime intersects genre studies, screenwriting, and media criticism, sharing concerns with how
See also: trope, crime fiction, detective fiction, genre conventions, media studies.