Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film
By (Author) Dr Bran Nicol
Edited by Dr Eugene McNulty
Edited by Dr Patricia Pulham
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Continuum Publishing Corporation
11th November 2010
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Film history, theory or criticism
813.0093556
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
Reviews
This exciting collection of essays discusses a wide variety of subjectsincluding film noir, violence and gender, crime fictions, the hit man, and true crimeunder the heading of crime culture,' a concept that is both original and thought-provoking. This cutting-edge volume is essential reading for anyone interested in crime narratives. -- David F. Schmid, Associate Professor, Department of English, University at Buffalo, USA
Author Bio
Bran Nicol is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His books include Stalking (Reaktion, 2006), Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction (2e, Palgrave, 2004) andThe Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (forthcoming). 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).
