Criminology Goes to the Movies : : Crime Theory and Popular Culture / / Michelle Brown, Nicole Rafter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rafter, Nicole,; Brown, Michelle,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Investigating cinema under the magnifying glassFrom a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engagements with popular culture, encouraging them to use the everyday world as a vehicle for theorizing and understanding both crime and perceptions of criminality. The first work to bring a systematic and sophisticated criminological perspective to bear on crime films, Rafter and Brown’s book provides a fresh way of looking at cinema, using the concepts and analytical tools of criminology to uncover previously unnoticed meanings in film, ultimately making the study of criminological theory more engaging and effective for students while simultaneously demonstrating how theories of crime circulate in our mass-mediated worlds. The result is an illuminating new way of seeing movies and a delightful way of learning about criminology. Instructor's Guide

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Use of Dates -- 1 Introduction -- 2 “For Money and a Woman” -- 3 “He’s Alive!” -- 4 “Blood, Mother, Blood!” -- 5 “You Talking to Me?” -- 6 “You’re Giving Me a Nervous Breakdown” -- 7 Getting the Drift -- 8 “Pornography in Foot-High Stacks” -- 9 Fight the Power -- 10 “Let Her Go” -- 11 A Matter of Time -- 12 Conclusion -- Appendix of Films -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors