Criminology, deviance, and the silver screen: the fictional reality and the criminological imagination

This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminologicaltheorizing 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. JON FRAULEY is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. INDICE: - 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 HistoryX - Power Crime and the Culture of Enterprise in American Psycho and Thank You for Smoking - Bio-politics and Stigma Management in GATTACA

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61516-8
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 262
• Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido