Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen - The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination

Informationen zum Autor JON FRAULEY is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Klappentext This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education. Zusammenfassung This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introductory Remarks - Films, Themes, and Premises Theory, Theorizing, and Fictional Realities The Criminological Imagination Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX and Happiness Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down Subculture, Control, and American History X Power Crime and the Culture of Enterprise in American Psycho and Thank You for Smoking Bio-politics and Stigma Management in GATTACA

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Introductory Remarks - Films, Themes, and Premises Theory, Theorizing, and Fictional Realities The Criminological Imagination Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX and Happiness Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down Subculture, Control, and American History X Power Crime and the Culture of Enterprise in American Psycho and Thank You for Smoking Bio-politics and Stigma Management in GATTACA

Product details

• Authors: J Frauley, J. Frauley, Jon Frauley
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2011
• EAN: 9781349378869
• ISBN: 978-1-349-37886-9
• No. of pages: 261
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; B, Media Studies, Communication, Criminology, Film History, Media and Communication, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Film and TV History, Motion pictures—History, Film history, theory & criticism, crime;criminology;education;pathology