Crime Culture

A collection of original essays drawing on crime fiction and film to explore the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves. By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie, it breathes new life into staple themes of crime fiction and cinema.

A collection of original essays drawing on crime fiction and film to explore the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves. By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie, it breathes new life into staple themes of crime fiction and cinema.

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Crime Culture and Modernity Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham, Eugene McNulty; Part 1 Breaking Boundaries: Games, Art & the Image; Playing Dead: Crime as a Social System Mark Seltzer; Psychopathology as a Game: J.G. Ballard and Conceptual Crime Benjamin Noys; Crime, Abjection, Transgression and the Image John Lechte; Part 2: Revisiting Noir; The Female Side of Crime:Film Noir's Femme Fatale and The Dark Side of Modernity Elisabeth Bronfen; Post-war American Noir: Confronting Fordism Andrew Pepper; Part 3: Vixens and Victims: Criminal Femininities; Dead Dolls and Deadly Dames: The Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing Lee Horsley; Contemporary African American Women's Crime and Mystery Novels Linden Peach; Part 4: Angels of Death: Criminal Masculinities; Killer Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A Paraic Finnerty; The Angel of Death: Targetting the Hitman Andrew Spicer; Part 5: Reading the Criminal Other; Risk Management: Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the Shadowing of Pleasure Christopher Wilson Police Thy Neighbour: Crime Culture and the Rear Window Paradigm Bran Nicol; Index.