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By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie, Crime Culture 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.
Contents
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
