03450oam 2200649M 450 991015512650332120240505170339.01-315-74522-41-317-59454-1(CKB)4340000000023875(MiAaPQ)EBC4767104(OCoLC)969666324(OCoLC-P)969666324(FlBoTFG)9781315745220(EXLCZ)99434000000002387520161118e20162015 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCrime fiction and the law /edited by Maria Aristodemou, Fiona Macmillan, Patricia Tuitt1st ed.London :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (192 pages)Birkbeck Law PressPreviously issued in print: 2015.1-138-62433-0 1-138-81846-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- 1 The introduction didn't do it -- 2 Critique, crime fiction and the no right answer thesis -- 3 The rise of crime fiction and the fading of law's empire: Chronicle of a swap foretold -- 4 French television crime fictions: The case of Spiral ( Engrenages) - coming out of the confusion -- 5 Locating justice in Wallander: Trading TV stories, local jurisdictions and global injustice in the Swedish and UK Wallanders -- 6 Attainable utopias -- 7 Necessary deceptions: Kafka and the mystery of law -- 8 Suspending democracy: Vigilante justice and the rule of law in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy -- 9 Lawless -- In memoriam -- Attitudes to law and legal systems in crime fiction in Africa: An overview with special reference to Kenyan crime fiction -- Index.This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is formulated in literature, television and film. Employing critical legal theory to address the relationship between crime fiction, law and justice, it considers a range of topics, including: the relationship between crime fiction, legal reasoning and critique; questions surrounding the relationship between law and justice; gender issues; the legal, political and social impacts of fictional representations of crime and justice; post-colonial perspectives on crime fiction; as well as the impact of law itself on the crime fiction's development.Law and literatureDetective and mystery storiesHistory and criticismCrime in literatureCrime on televisionLaw in literatureLaw on televisionLaw in motion picturesLaw and literature.Detective and mystery storiesHistory and criticism.Crime in literature.Crime on television.Law in literature.Law on television.Law in motion pictures.809/.933554809.3872Aristodemou MariaMacmillan Fiona1958-Tuitt Patricia1961-OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910155126503321Crime fiction and the law2243648UNINA