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Crime and law in media culture / Sheila Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Sheila, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime in mass media.
- Law in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 224 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- 1 Mediatization, modernity and globalization: crime and law in media culture? 1
- Approaching media, crime, and culture 1
- Thought-crime prevention? Early conceptions of the mass and the media 3
- Media messaging in modernity 8
- The global soul? Globalization, identity and media culture 11
- The emergence of the media hybrid 16
- The academe and the study of media, crime and law 23
- Modern media and the criminological project: dichotomies and dilemmas 24
- 2 Real crime/crime stories: the collapse of fantasy and fact? 39
- Crime: metaphorically speaking, a practice? 40
- Crime dramas: the collapse of the 'real'? 47
- Will the missing context please stand up? 'Implosion' and its problems 64
- 3 Novel forms, dramatic scenes: crime and law in popular culture 78
- Reading crime fiction: crime in popular culture 79
- Reading law film 90
- Reading the fictive: doing the culture 102
- 4 Does splatter matter? Representing violence, regulating consumption 107
- A passionate cause: the splatter effect 108
- Representing violence and the body 114
- Contestation and cultures of violence 123
- The political and the aesthetic: gendered violence 129
- Does splatter (still) matter? 135
- 5 (S)talking in cyberspace: virtuality, crime and law 137
- Cyberspace and cybercultures: approaching the prosthetic 138
- Crime, law and the cyber 145
- The virtual/real: where does it leave crime and law? 166
- 6 Crime, law and media futures 174
- Cartographic convolutions? The media mapping of crime and law 175
- Beyond and outside the postmodern 184
- Crime and law in media culture 189
- Entailments, ethics and crime, law, media, futures 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0335205496
- 0335205488
- OCLC:
- 50023415
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