书目名称 | Urban Crime Control in Cinema |
副标题 | Fallen Guardians and |
编辑 | Vladimir Rizov |
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概述 | Offers a culturally-oriented analysis of urban crime control through cinema.Focusses on crime control measures of private and preventative policing, mass incarceration & extrajudicial killing.Appeals |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture |
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描述 | .This book uses popular films to understand the convergence of crime control and the ideology of repression in contemporary capitalism. It focuses on the cinematic figure of the fallen guardian, a protagonist who, in the course of a narrative, falls from grace and becomes an enemy of the established social order. The fallen guardian is a figure that allows for the analysis of a particular crime control measure through the perspective of both an enforcer and a target. The very notion of ‘justice’ is challenged, and questions are posed in relation to the role that films assume in the reproduction of policing as it is. In doing so, the book combines a historical far-reaching perspective with popular culture analysis. At the core remains the value of the cinematic figure of the fallen guardian for contemporary understandings of urban space and urban crime control and how films are clear examples of the ways in which the ideology of repression is reproduced..This book questions thejustifications that are often given for social control in cities and understands cinema as a medium for offering critique of such processes and justifications. Explored are the crime control measures of privat |
出版日期 | Book 2023 |
关键词 | film studies; film and philosophy; film and sociology; film and culture; urban criminology; cultural crim |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12978-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-12980-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-12978-0Series ISSN 2946-3912 Series E-ISSN 2946-3920 |
issn_series | 2946-3912 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |