Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film

ISBN-13: 9781441150165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str.

Bran Nicol; Eugene McNulty; Patricia Pulham

Opis

By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie, Crime Cultures breathes new life into staple themes of crime fiction and cinema.Leading international scholars from the fields of literary and cultural studies analyze a range of literature and film, from neglected examples of film noir and 'true crime', crime fiction by female African American writers, to reality TV, recent films such as Elephant, Collateral and The Departed, and contemporary fiction by J. G. Ballard, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Margaret Atwood. They offer groundbreaking interpretations of new elements such as the mythology of the hitman, technology and the image, and the cultural impact of 'senseless' murders and reveal why crime is a powerful way of making sense of the broader concerns shaping modern culture and society.

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Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Crime Culture and Modernity Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham, Eugene McNulty Part 1 Breaking Boundaries: Games, Art & the Image Playing Dead: Crime as a Social System Mark Seltzer Psychopathology as a Game: J.G. Ballard and Conceptual Crime Benjamin Noys Crime, Abjection, Transgression and the Image John Lechte Part 2: Revisiting Noir The Female Side of Crime:Film Noir's Femme Fatale and The Dark Side of Modernity Elisabeth Bronfen Post-war American Noir: Confronting Fordism Andrew Pepper Part 3: Vixens and Victims: Criminal Femininities Dead Dolls and Deadly Dames: The Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing Lee Horsley Contemporary African American Women's Crime and Mystery Novels Linden Peach Part 4 : Angels of Death: Criminal Masculinities Killer Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A Páraic Finnerty The Angel of Death: Targetting the Hitman Andrew Spicer Part 5: Reading the Criminal Other Risk Management: Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the Shadowing of Pleasure Christopher Wilson Police Thy Neighbour: Crime Culture and the Rear Window Paradigm Bran Nicol Index