Criminology goes to the movies : crime theory and popular culture /
From 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...
| Основен автор: | Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939- |
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| Други автори: | Brown, Michelle, 1971- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
New York University,
℗♭2011.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=386938 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Criminology goes to the movies. |
| Резюме: |
From 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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780814777411 0814777414 9780814745298 0814745296 |