Monsters in and among us : toward a Gothic criminology / edited by Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-

Greek, Cecil E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police films--United States--History and criticism.

Police films.

Gothic revival (Literature).

United States.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction: toward a Gothic criminology / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek

Bodies under scandal: civic Gothic as genre / Edward J. Ingebretsen

"My, that's a big one": masculinity and monstrosity in Dirty Harry / Davis W. Houck

Mother and monster: the rhetorical structure of The man who knew too much / Thomas Benson

The substance abuse film and the Gothic: typology, narrative, and hallucination / Jason Grant McKahan

Making a killing in the marketplace: incorporation as a monstrous process / Pat Gill

The big city rogue cop as monster: images of NYPD and LAPD / Cecil Greek

Gothic criminology and criminal justice policy / Raymond Surette

The compulsion of real/reel serial killers and vampires: toward a Gothic criminology / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek

Profiling the terrorist as a mass murderer / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780838641590

0838641598

OCLC:

83758538