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Criminology Goes to the Movies
Michelle Brown
其他書名
Crime Theory and Popular Culture
出版NYU Press, 2011-09
主題Law / Criminal Law / GeneralLaw / Media & the LawPerforming Arts / Film & Video / History & CriticismSocial Science / Criminology
ISBN08147765239780814776520
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jWQTCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋From a look at classics likePsychoandDouble Indemnityto recent films likeTrafficandThelma & 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 Moviesconnects 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.