Crime Culture Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film

A collection of original essays drawing on crime fiction and film to explore the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves.

Acknowledgements \ Contributors \ Introduction: Crime Culture and Modernity Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham, Eugene McNulty \ Part 1 Breaking Boundaries: Games, Art & the Image \ Playing Dead: Crime as a Social System Mark Seltzer \ Psychopathology as a Game: J.G. Ballard and Conceptual Crime Benjamin Noys \ Crime, Abjection, Transgression and the Image John Lechte \ Part 2: Revisiting Noir \ The Female Side of Crime:Film Noir's Femme Fatale and The Dark Side of Modernity Elisabeth Bronfen \ Post-war American Noir: Confronting Fordism Andrew Pepper \ Part 3: Vixens and Victims: Criminal Femininities \ Dead Dolls and Deadly Dames: The Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing Lee Horsley \ Contemporary African American Women's Crime and Mystery Novels Linden Peach \ Part 4 : Angels of Death: Criminal Masculinities \ Killer Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A Páraic Finnerty \ The Angel of Death: Targetting the Hitman Andrew Spicer \ Part 5: Reading the Criminal Other \ Risk Management: Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the Shadowing of Pleasure Christopher Wilson \Police Thy Neighbour: Crime Culture and the Rear Window Paradigm Bran Nicol \ Index