Criminology goes to the movies : crime theory and popular culture / Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939-

Contributor:

Brown, Michelle, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime in popular culture.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass 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 sophisticated criminological perspective to bear on crime films, Rafter and Brown’s book provides a fresh way of looking at cinema, using the concepts and analytical tools of criminology to uncover previously unnoticed meanings in film, ultimately making the study of criminological theory more engaging and effective for students while simultaneously demonstrating how theories of crime circulate in our mass-mediated worlds. The result is an illuminating new way of seeing movies and a delightful way of learning about criminology. Instructor's Guide

Contents:

Introduction: taking criminology to the movies

"For money and a woman" : rational choice theories and double indemnity

"He's alive!" : biological theories and Frankenstein

"Blood, mother, blood!" : psychological theories and psycho

"You talking to me?" : social disorganization theories and taxi driver

"You're giving me a nervous breakdown" : strain theories and traffic

Getting the drift : social learning theories and Mystic River

"Pornography in foot-high stacks" : labeling theory and capturing the Friedmans

Fight the power : conflict theories and do the right thing

"Let her go" : feminist criminology and thelma and louise

A matter of time : lifecourse theories and city of God

Conclusion: the big picture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814777411

0814777414

9780814745298

0814745296

OCLC:

751978637