Crime culture
Subtitle: figuring criminality in fiction and film
By: edited by Bran Nicol, Eugene McNulty and Patricia Pulham
Series: Continuum literary studies; Continuum literary studies
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780826432353
Subjects: American fiction; History and criticism; Crime films; Crime in literature; English fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Crime culture and modernity  -- Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham and Eugene McNulty; title: Breaking boundaries :; title: games, art and the image. Playing dead :; title: crime as a social system  -- Mark Seltzer ; Psychopathology as a game :; title: J.G. Ballard and conceptual crime  -- Benjamin Noys ; Crime, abjection, transgression and the image / -- John Lechte; title: Revisiting noir. The female side of crime :; title: film noir's Femme fatale and the dark side of modernity  -- Elisabeth Bronfen ; Post-war American noir :; title: confronting Fordism  -- Andrew Pepper; title: Vixens and victims :; title: criminal femininities. Dead dolls and deadly dames :; title: the cover girls of American true crime publishing  -- Lee Horsley ; Contemporary African American women's crime and mystery novels / -- Linden Peach; title: Angels of death :; title: criminal masculinities. Killer boys :; title: male friendship and criminality in The butcher boy, elephant and boy a  -- Páraic Finnerty ; The angel of death :; title: targeting the hitman  -- Andrew Spicer; title: Reading the criminal other. Risk management :; title: Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the shadowing of pleasure  -- Christopher P. Wilson ; "Police they neighbour" :; title: crime culture and the Rear window paradigm -- Bran Nicol.