Shots in the mirror: crime films and society
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Main Author: Rafter, Nicole Hahn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2000
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Item Description:Filmography: pages 181-185
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index
The history of crime films / by Drew Todd -- Why they went bad : criminology in crime films -- Cop films -- Courtroom films / with Charles Alexander Hahn -- Prison and execution films -- The heroes of crime films -- The future of crime films
Movies play a central role in shaping our understanding of crime and the world generally, helping us define what is good and bad, desirable and unworthy, lawful and illicit, strong and weak. Crime films raise controversial issues about the distribution of social power and the meanings of deviance, and they provide a safe space for fantasies of rebellion, punishment, and the restoration of order. In this, the first comprehensive study of its kind, well-known criminologist Nicole Rafter examines the relationship between society and crime films from the perspectives of criminal justice, film history and technique, and sociology. Dealing with over 300 films ranging from gangster and cop to trial and prison movies, Shots in the Mirror concentrates on works in the Hollywood tradition but also identifies a darker strain of critical films that portray crime and punishment more bleakly
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 201 pages)
ISBN:0195129822
019802973X
1280472332
1423760379
9780195129823
9780198029731
9781280472336
9781423760375