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Screening Justice - Canadian Crime Films, Culture and Society (Paperback)
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Screening Justice - Canadian Crime Films, Culture and Society (Paperback)
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What do Canadian films say about crime and justice in Canada? What
purpose do Canadian crime films serve politically and culturally?
Screening Justice is a scholarly exploration of films that focus on
crime and justice in Canada. Contributors to this edited collection
argue that crime films are pivotal for understanding and shaping
Canadian sensibilities about justice by setting out widely
available templates for thinking about crime, justice and society.
They argue that films offer accessible cultural spaces to contest
mainstream assumptions about the ways race, class, gender, place
and culture produce and reproduce crime. Spanning disciplines and
examining films from across Canada, Screening Justice is the first
comprehensive Canadian volume on crime films that takes up cultural
criminology s call for more critical scholarly analyses of the
interplay between crime, culture and society.Defining Canadian
crime films as movies that focus significantly on crime and its
consequences in Canadian society, the book is as much about the
ways crime films provide vehicles for understanding what it means
to be Canadian as it is about the depiction and representation of
crime and justice in Canadian cinema and television. The films
examined in this book span all regions of Canada and include case
studies of films set in Atlantic Canada, Nunavut, British Columbia
s Lower Mainland, the Prairies, Ontario and Quebec. Moreover,
Canadian crime films produced from the 1930s to the present are
included in these analyses. Contributors to this multi- and
interdisciplinary volume are drawn from criminology, criminal
justice studies, English literature, art history, film studies and
communications, cultural anthropology, sociology, and women s and
gender studies. Adopting American criminologist Nicole Rafter s
concept popular criminology, the essays in this volume all take
crime films seriously as popular efforts to understand the causes,
consequences and meanings of crime in Canadian society."
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