Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture

Contributor(s): Author: Nicole RafterAuthor: Michelle BrownFrom a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic an...

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Reducere. This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who die...

For decades after its invention, television was considered by many to be culturally deficient when compared to cinema, as analyses rooted in commun...

Reducere. Stephen King Goes to the Movies is the 2021 Stephen King Catalog calendar theme. Jam packed full of art, photos, trivia, quotes, movie history, et ...

In-depth reassessment of the recruitment, training, arming and ethos of the Home Guard.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Malcolm AtkinIllu...

Since its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerg...

Reducere. In the field of criminal justice, public policy is designed to address the problems brought on by criminal behavior and the response to that behavi...

`The 11 comprehensive and well-documented chapters provide critical insights toward understanding these complex domains and their contemporary role...

In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, race plays an ever more salient role in crime and justice. Within theoreti...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the construction and contestation of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteen...

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Reducere. DescriptionBlake Synder dissects 50 top Hollywood and Independent films from the past 30 years, using 10 genre categories he coined in previous tit...

Reducere. In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, Save the Cat , author and screenwriter Blake Snyder returns to form in a fast-paced follow-u...

Commentators have noted the extraordinary impact of popular culture on legal practice, courtroom proceedings, police departments, and government as...

Reducere. For two years, Philip Gambone traveled the length and breadth of the United States, talking candidly with LGBTQ people about their lives. In additi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joan (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) OrmrodNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimens...

Reducere. Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Movies and television shape our perception of law and change how players in the legal system behave...

This book examines and establishes the sociological relevance of the concept of populism and illuminates the ideological use of sport, leisure, and...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalitie...

By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms and the growth of a commerci...

This textbook brings criminology theories to life through a wide range of popular works in film, television and video games including 13 Reasons Wh...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media; 50 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 536Collectio...

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Reducere. What is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to U.S. Popular Culture: People, Politics, and Power int...

Reducere. Resist pays close attention to popular culture; it examines the political ramifications of Kanye West's support of Donald Trump, the significance o...

Presenting a biopsychosocial perspective to explain the most common findings in criminology--and for guiding future research and public policyPubli...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered why 007 is James Bond's numerical designation? Or where the name Luke Skywalker comes from? How about all those giant faces ...

What do ghost hunting, legend tripping, and legendary monsters have in common with email hoaxes, chain letters, and horror movies? In this follow-u...

This book brings together sociological, psychological, historical, cultural, and environmental ways of thinking about nonhuman animals and our rela...

A lively account of how Nova Scotian literature and popular culture depict a messy and unfinished process of deindustrialization.

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply -the best single work of its kind.- And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marv...

Reducere. Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the w...

Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Popular culture constructs our perceptions of law and changes the way that players in the legal sys...

Building on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient ...

Reducere. Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exp...

The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi's continued and evolving presence in popular c...

A general treatment of the major players and historical events of the Roman Empire during Jesus' life.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): St...