Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
Crime Films and Society
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-512982-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Everyone watches crime films, but almost no one has analysed the sources of their appeal or their role in popular culture. Nicole Rafter, a well-known criminologist, fills this gap with Shots in the Mirror, the first comprehensive study of movies about crimes and criminals. Crime films, she argues, reflect our ideas about fundamental social, economic, and political issues while at the same time shaping the ways we think about these issues. When we look at the relationship between crime films and society, we find a dynamic interplay of art and life, one that Rafter examines from the multiple perspectives of criminal justice, film history and technique, social history, and sociology.