Constructing crime: discourse and cultural representations of crime and 'deviance'

Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies. CHRISTIANA GREGORIOU Lecturer at Leeds University, UK. In addition to several articles, she has publishedEnglish Literary Stylistics, a Crime Files monograph on (the Edgar and Anthony-nominated)Deviance inContemporary Crime Fiction, and a critical stylistics monograph onLanguage, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives. INDICE: Editor Preface - Notes on Contributors - PART I: CONSTRUCTING CRIMINAL FACTS - The Devil Drives a Lada: The Social Construction of Hackers as the Cybercriminal; 'D.S.Wall - 'Scanning Bodies, Stripping Rights? How do UK's Media Discourses Portray Airport Security Measures?; 'C.Gregoriou' &' P.Troullinou - 'Narrative and Historical Truth in Delayed Civil Actions for Child Abuse; 'T.Ward - 'The Edgier Waters of the Era: Gordon Burn's Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son; 'M.Colebrook - 'PART II: CONSTRUCTING CRIMINAL FICTIONS - Cogito ergo sum: Criminal Logic and Mad-Discourse in Shutter Island; 'M.E.Iwen - ''ARMAGGEDON WAS YESTERDAY- TODAY WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM': Pre- and post- millennial Tropes for Crime and Criminality in Fiction by David Peace and Stieg Larsson; 'R.Brown - ''It's a sin [b&] Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone, Beethoven just wrote music': The Role of the Incongruent Soundtrack in the Representation of the Cinematic Criminal; 'D.Ireland - 'Criminal Publication and Victorian Prefaces: Suspending Disbelief in Sensation Fiction; 'M.Effron - 'PART III: CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND WRONGDOINGS - Crime through a Corpus: The Linguistic Construction of Offenders in the British Press;'U.Tabbert - 'Popular Faces of Crime in Spain; 'A.Sinclair - 'Reinventing theBadman in Jamaican Fiction and Film; 'L.Evans - 'Neurotecs: Detectives, Disability and Cognitive Exceptionality in Contemporary Fiction; 'S.Murray - 'PART IV: CONSTRUCTING GENDERED CRIME - Engendering Violence: Textual and Sexual Torture in Val McDermid's 'The Mermaids Singing'; 'K.Watson - 'Life of Crime: Feminist Crime/Life Writing in Sara Paretsky, 'Writing in an Age of Silence', P.D. James, 'Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography', and Val McDermid, 'A Suitable Job for a Woman: Inside the World of Women Private Eyes'; 'C.Beyer - 'Understanding Aileen Wuornos: Pushing the Limits of Empathy; 'M.Koolen - 'Notes - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29977-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés