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  • The Church on British Television

    From the Coronation to Coronation Street

    by Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, Barbara Harmes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book will be the first systematic and comprehensive text to analyze the many and contrasting appearances of the Church of England on television. It covers a range of genres and programs including crime drama, science fiction, comedy, including the specific genre of ‘ecclesiastical comedy’, zombie horror and non-fiction broadcasting. Readers interested in church and political history, popular ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture

    Edited by Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, Barbara Harmes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture will be an essential reference point, providing international coverage and thematic richness. The chapters examine the real and imagined spaces of the prison and, perhaps more importantly, dwell in the uncertain space between them. The modern fixation with ‘seeing inside’ prison from the outside has prompted a proliferation of media visions of ... Read more

    $332.99 USD

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  • Media and Crime

    by Yvonne Jewkes ...
    Series series Key Approaches to Criminology
    This book critically examines the complex interactions between media and crime.Written with an engaging and authoritative voice, it guides you through all the key issues, ranging from news reporting of crime, media constructions of children and women, moral panics, and media and the police to ′reality′ crime shows, surveillance and social control.This third edition:Explores innovations in ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Criminology Goes to the Movies

    Crime Theory and Popular Culture

    by Nicole Rafter, Michelle Brown ...
    A "deftly written and absorbing" look at how films reflect concepts in criminology and affect our perceptions of criminal behavior (Richard Rosenfeld, coauthor of Crime and the American Dream).From Psycho to Double Indemnity to Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy through scholarly research, but also in popular ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance

    A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere

    Edited by Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez ...
    Series series Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
    This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary ... Read more

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  • The Truth about Crime

    Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

    by Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Unruly Women

    The Politics of Confinement & Resistance

    by Karlene Faith ...
    Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there. Most women who are incarcerated do not pose a danger to society but transgress patriarchal, capitalist ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Habitus of the Hood

    Edited by Chris Richardson, Hans A Skott-Myhre ...
    Since the 1990s, popular culture the world over has frequently looked to the ’hood for inspiration, whether in music, film, or television. Habitus of the Hood explores the myriad ways in which the hood has been conceived—both within the lived experiences of its residents and in the many mediated representations found in popular culture. Using a variety of methodologies including autoethnography, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Detecting Canada

    Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film

    Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski, Marilyn Rose ...
    Series Book 16 - Film and Media Studies
    The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka.Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Subcultures

    Cultural Histories and Social Practice

    by Ken Gelder ...
    This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London’s ‘Elizabethan underworld’, taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx’s later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew’s view of subcultures as ‘those that will not work’. Subcultures are always in some ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Singing in the Fire

    Stories of Women in Philosophy

    by Sandra Bartky, Claudia Card, Stephanie Lewis, Andrea Nye, Kristin Schrader-Frechette, Ofelia Schutte, Karen Warren, Teresa Brennan, Virginia Held, Alison Jaggar, Uma Narayan, Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates-absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken huge steps in the philosophy profession over the past 50 years. Still, to this day, well-established women philosophers ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Contemporary British Television Crime Drama

    Cops on the Box

    Edited by Ruth McElroy ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Television Studies
    Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and continues to enjoy some of the highest viewing figures. Crime drama offers audiences stories of right and wrong, moral authority asserted and resisted, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD