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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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Crime culture: figuring criminality in fiction and film
2011, Continuum
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0826432352 9780826432353
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-227) and index.
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