Fatal fascinations : cultural manifestations of crime and violence

Fatal fascinations : cultural manifestations of crime and violence / edited by Suzanne Bray and Gérald Préher.

What is crime? What constitutes violence? What is it permissible to talk about or describe in cultural depictions of crime and violence? What is the impact of portraying crime and violence on an audience? How are crime and violence presented to make them culturally acceptable for educational or ente...

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Other Authors: Bray, S. (Suzanne) (Editor), Préher, Gérald (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Subjects:
Crime in literature.
Violence in literature.
Violence in society.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Films, cinema.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime in literature
Violence in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents; introduction; first steps towards a theologyof english detective fiction; policing madness, diagnosing badness:personality disorder and criminalbehaviour in sebastian faulks'sengleby; the otherness within, the otherness without; dancing to the rhythmof the triple why-dunnit; "slaughter without the blood"; exploring the pertinence of "violent"as an epithet for joyce carol oates'scrime fiction; bloody sam; "what is crime, what constitutesviolence ... where and when?"; "it's all unclear"; a serial killer with a heart; a brief moment in the greatpostcolonial story.
  • Dramatizing the violenceliterary black hats; u.s. juvenile justiceand the super-predator theory; violence on the menu; a worthy victim?how media stories are influencedand distorted by society'sperceptions of beauty; notes on contributors; index.

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