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Description: Constructing Crime by C. Gregoriou 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography CHARLOTTE BEYER Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UKRICHARD BROWN Reader in Modern Literature at the University of Leeds, UKMARTYN COLEBROOKPhD candidateMALCAH EFFRON Adjunct Faculty at the Community College of Baltimore County, USALUCY EVANS Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester, UKDAVID IRELAND Film music psychologist currently completing a PhD at the School of Music, University of Leeds, UKMICHELLE E. IWEN Manages the Creative Writing program at Arizona State University and teaches English at Mesa Community College, USAMANDY KOOLEN Lecturer in English and Womens Studies at Laurentian University, CanadaSTUART MURRAY Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film, and Director of Medical Humanities Research, in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UKALISON SINCLAIR Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, UKULRIKE TABBERT PhD student of English Language at the University of Huddersfield, UKPINELOPI TROULLINOU Research Assistant for the EU fp7 project ICT ethics, and PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, UKDAVID S. WALL Professor of Criminology at Durham University, UKTONY WARD Reader in Law at the University of Hull, UKKATE WATSON PhD graduate in English Literature from Cardiff University, UK Table of Contents 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 UKs 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 Burns Somebodys Husband, Somebodys 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 Its a sin […] 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 the Badman 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 McDermids 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 Promotional Springer Book Archives Details ISBN1349335401 Language English ISBN-10 1349335401 ISBN-13 9781349335404 Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title CONSTRUCTING CRIME 2012/E Media Book DEWEY 364 Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-01-01 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and Deviance Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 249 UK Release Date 2012-01-01 AU Release Date 2012-01-01 NZ Release Date 2012-01-01 Author C. Gregoriou Illustrations XII, 249 p. Edited by C. Gregoriou Edition Description 1st ed. 2012 Alternative 9780230299771 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127487136;

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