Crime Culture - Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Continuum
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	July 2012
Editors:	Bran Nicol • Eugene Mcnulty • Patricia Pulham
Dimensions:	159 x 234 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-4411-5016-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-4411-5016-1
Barcode:	9781441150165

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