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Crime culture

figuring criminality in fiction and film

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An edition of Crime culture (2011)

Crime culture

figuring criminality in fiction and film

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Exploring crime in works which are not usually associated with crime genres, this work breathes new life into staple themes in crime fiction/cinema such as gender, the body and the city, and offers analyses of new elements such as the mythology of the hitman and the cultural impact of 'senseless' murders.

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Continuum
Language
English
Pages
237

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Subjects
American fiction, History and criticism, Crime films, Crime in literature, English fiction
Places
United States, Great Britain
Times
20th century, 21st century

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Table of Contents

Crime culture and modernity -- Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham and Eugene McNulty
Breaking boundaries :
games, art and 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
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
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
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 :
targeting the hitman -- Andrew Spicer
Reading the criminal other. Risk management :
Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the shadowing of pleasure -- Christopher P. Wilson ; "Police they neighbour" :
crime culture and the Rear window paradigm -- Bran Nicol.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-227) and index.

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London, New York
Series
Continuum literary studies, Continuum literary studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.0093556
Library of Congress
PN56.C7 C75 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 237 p. :
Number of pages
237

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25143886M
Internet Archive
crimeculturefigu00nico
ISBN 10
0826432352
ISBN 13
9780826432353
LCCN
2011453815
OCLC/WorldCat
645702334

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