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Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film
Author(s): Bran Nicol (Editor), Eugene McNulty (Editor), Patricia Pulham (Editor)
- Publisher: Continuum
- Publication Date: January 13, 2011
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0826432352
- ISBN-13: 9780826432353
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Review
This exciting collection of essays discusses a wide variety of subjects including film noir, violence and gender, crime fictions, the hit man, and true crime under 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.--Sanford Lakoff
About the Author
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) and The 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).
