Fatal Fascinations
Cultural Manifestations of Crime and Violence
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 2014
225 pages
978-1-4438-6410-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 entertainment purposes? This book examines representations of violence and crime both historically and in relation to contemporary culture across a wide range of media, including fiction, film, art, biography, and journalism, to interrogate the issues raised.While some articles here analyze the ethics invoked by different representative frameworks, the danger that violence will be treated as spectacle, and the implications of using violence as a polemical device to shift public sentiment, others address the relationship between coercive power, crime and violence that is not necessarily primarily physical, and the political or ideological contexts in which narratives of good and evil are constructed and crime defined.
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Suzanne Bray | Suzanne Bray | Gerald Preher
Fatal Fascinations
Cultural Manifestations of Crime and Violence
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11/2013
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Content
- Intro
- 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 VIOLENCE
- LITERARY 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
