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Urban Crime Control in Cinema - Fallen Guardians and the Ideology of Repression (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Urban Crime Control in Cinema - Fallen Guardians and the Ideology of Repression (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
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This book uses popular films to understand the convergence of crime
control and the ideology of repression in contemporary capitalism.
It focuses on the cinematic figure of the fallen guardian, a
protagonist who, in the course of a narrative, falls from grace and
becomes an enemy of the established social order. The fallen
guardian is a figure that allows for the analysis of a particular
crime control measure through the perspective of both an enforcer
and a target. The very notion of 'justice' is challenged, and
questions are posed in relation to the role that films assume in
the reproduction of policing as it is. In doing so, the book
combines a historical far-reaching perspective with popular culture
analysis. At the core remains the value of the cinematic figure of
the fallen guardian for contemporary understandings of urban space
and urban crime control and how films are clear examples of the
ways in which the ideology of repression is reproduced. This book
questions the justifications that are often given for social
control in cities and understands cinema as a medium for offering
critique of such processes and justifications. Explored are the
crime control measures of private policing in relation to RoboCop
(1987), preventative policing and Minority Report (2002), mass
incarceration in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and extra-judicial
killing in Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The book speaks to those
interested in crime control in critical criminology, cultural
criminology, urban studies, and beyond.
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