Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen [electronic resource] : The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination /
Frauley, J.author.
This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introductory Remarks - Films, Themes, and Premises * Theory, Theorizing, and Fictional Realities * The Criminological Imagination * Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX and Happiness * Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down * Subculture, Control, and American History X * Power Crime and the Culture of Enterprise in American Psycho and Thank You for Smoking * Bio-politics and Stigma Management in GATTACA.
This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.
Criminology.
Motion pictures—History.
Communication.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Film History.
Media Studies.