Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film (Continuum Literary Studies)

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Introduction: Crime Culture and Modernity......Page 12
Part I: Breaking Boundaries: Games, Art and the Image......Page 22
1. Playing Dead: Crime as a Social System......Page 24
2. Psychopathology as a Game: J. G. Ballard and Conceptual Crime......Page 47
3. Crime, Abjection, Transgression and the Image......Page 62
Part II: Revisiting Noir......Page 80
4. The Female Side of Crime: Film Noir’s Femme Fatale and the Dark Side of Modernity......Page 82
5. Post-War American Noir: Confronting Fordism......Page 101
Part III: Vixens and Victims: Criminal Femininities......Page 118
6. Dead Dolls and Deadly Dames: The Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing......Page 120
7. Contemporary African American Women’s Crime and Mystery Novels......Page 133
Part IV: Angels of Death: Criminal Masculinities......Page 150
8. Killer Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A......Page 152
9. The Angel of Death: Targeting the Hitman......Page 166
Part V: Reading the Criminal Other......Page 184
10. Risk Management: Frank Abagnale, Jr, and the Shadowing of Pleasure......Page 186
11. ‘Police Thy Neighbour’: Crime Culture and the Rear Window Paradigm......Page 203
Bibliography......Page 221
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C......Page 241
D......Page 242
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L......Page 244
N......Page 245
R......Page 246
T......Page 247
Z......Page 248