Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen

The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination
2010. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-61516-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frauley, J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introductory Remarks - Films, Themes, and Premises Theory, Theorizing, and Fictional Realities The Criminological Imagination Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX and Happiness Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down Subculture, Control, and American History X Power Crime and the Culture of Enterprise in American Psycho and Thank You for Smoking Bio-politics and Stigma Management in GATTACA

Über Autor(innen)

JON FRAULEY is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.