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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; 1 The introduction didn't do it; 2 Critique, crime fiction and the no right answer thesis; 3 The rise of crime fiction and the fading of law's empire: Chronicle of a swap foretold; 4 French television crime fictions: The case of Spiral (Engrenages) -- coming out of the confusion; 5 Locating justice in Wallander: Trading TV stories, local jurisdictions and global injustice in the Swedish and UK Wallanders; 6 Attainable utopias; 7 Necessary deceptions: Kafka and the mystery of law |
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8 Suspending democracy: Vigilante justice and the rule of law in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy9 Lawless; In memoriam; Attitudes to law and legal systems in crime fiction in Africa: An overview with special reference to Kenyan crime fiction; Index |
| Summary |
This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is formulated in literature, television and film. Employing critical legal theory to address the relationship between crime fiction, law and justice, it considers a range of topics, including: the relationship between crime fiction, legal reasoning and critique; questions surrounding the relationship between law and justice; gender issues; the legal, political and social impacts of fictional representations of crime and justice; post-colonial perspectives on crime fiction; as well as the impact of law itself on the crime fiction's development. Introducing a new sub-field of legal and literary research, this book will be of enormous interest to scholars in critical, cultural and socio-legal studies, as well as to others in criminology, as well as in literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law and literature.
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Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism
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Crime in literature.
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Crime on television.
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Law in literature.
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Law on television.
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Law in motion pictures.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Mystery & Detective.
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Crime in literature
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Crime on television
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Detective and mystery stories
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Law and literature
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Law in literature
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Law in motion pictures
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Law on television
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aristodemou, Maria, editor.
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Macmillan, Fiona, editor
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Tuitt, Patricia, editor
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| ISBN |
9781317594543 |
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1317594541 |
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