This book delves into humanity?s compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasure in watching people behave badly. This book offers an analysis of the varied and vexing definitions of hero, criminal, …
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""Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. John Barry's arrangement of the James Bond theme. These iconic melodies have remained a part of the pop culture landscape since their debuts in the late 1950s and early '60s: a "golden decade" that hi…
A crucial question in the analysis of legal practices concerns the processes of identification with, in and as law - a question of how and by what route law achieves its ends. This book considers how law and legal practices figure in the cultural field; and, specifically, in fil…
A crucial question in the analysis of legal practices concerns the processes of identification with, in and as law ' a question of how and by what route law achieves its ends. While it is conventional to interpret the practices of law through the institutional sources of the leg…
In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator's encounter with the cinematic scene of violence - rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Provi…
"In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator's encounter with the cinematic scene of violence - rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Prov…
A crucial question in the analysis of legal practices concerns the processes of identification with, in and as law - a question of how and by what route law achieves its ends. This book considers how law and legal practices figure in the cultural field; and, specifically, in fil…
'Women Who Kill' explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destru…
Offers a collection of essays that explores the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves. This title focuses beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie and discusses staple themes of crime fiction …