| Title | : | Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture |
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| ISBN | : | 0814776523 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 978-0814776520 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | and 1 more , Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 pages |
| Publication | : | NYU Press |
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 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.
Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture Reviews
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Exactly what i needed, thank you
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needed for college course. It's a book
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Perfect condition exactly as described
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Great book, used for the criminology class I instruct. Students reviewed movies to explain criminological theories.
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Excellent thank you so much I will see again
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As expected.
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It clearly explained the various crime theories and they relate to various crime movies
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I purchased this book on my kindle for a class I am taking for school. The kindle version is worthless because you are unable to see page number which corresponds to the traditional hardcover/softcover formats. This means most of the reading assignments are mixed up and it takes too long to figure out which section is the correct one to read. I wish I could return it!!!!!!Worthless, don't buy it.