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Titolo: |
Crime culture : figuring criminality in fiction and film / / edited by Bran Nicol, Eugene McNulty and Patricia Pulham
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Pubblicazione: | London, : Continuum, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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->
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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.: | 9910823252803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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