Crime culture [[electronic resource] ] : figuring criminality in fiction and film / / edited by Bran Nicol, Eugene McNulty and Patricia Pulham

• Pubblicazione: London, : Continuum, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.0093556
• Soggetto topico: Crime in literature; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism; Crime films - United States - History and criticism; Crime films - Great Britain - History and criticism
• Altri autori: NicolBran <1969-> McNultyEugene PulhamPatricia <1959->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Crime Culture and Modernity; Part I: Breaking Boundaries: Games, Art and the Image; Part II: Revisiting Noir; Part III: Vixens and Victims: Criminal Femininities; Part IV: Angels of Death: Criminal Masculinities; Part V: Reading the Criminal Other; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Exploring crime in works which are not usually associated with crime genres, this work breathes new life into staple themes in crime fiction/cinema such as gender, the body and the city, and offers analyses of new elements such as the mythology of the hitman and the cultural impact of 'senseless' murders.
• Titolo autorizzato: Crime culture
• ISBN: 1-283-20573-4; 9786613205735; 1-4411-4012-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789517803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum literary studies.