Crime Culture Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film [Hardcover]

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 P?raic 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

Eugene McNulty is Lecturer in English at St Patrick's College (Dublin City University), Ireland. His publications include Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival (Cork University Press, 2008).
Patricia Pulham is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is author of Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales (Ashgate, 2006), and co-editor of stories by Lee, Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales (Broadview, 2006) and of Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics (Palgrave, 2006).