Crime Fiction and the Law / Edition 1

by Maria Aristodemou, Fiona Macmillan, Patricia Tuitt

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138818460
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/09/2016
Series:	Birkbeck Law Press
Pages:	191
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maria Aristodemou, Fiona Macmillan and Patricia Tuitt are based at Birkbeck Law School, London, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Investigating Crime Fiction 2. Mysterium non tremendum: detective fiction as a paradigm of ‘modern’ law 3. Age of Crime Fiction 4. Crime Fiction and Legal Critique: Lessons from Agatha Christie 5. Cortazar’s Fantomas and the Second Russell Tribunal 6. Suspending Democracy: Vigilante Justice and the Rule of Law in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy 7. Perceptions of Law and Legal Systems in African Crime Fiction 8. French Television Crime Fictions: the case of Spiral (Engrenages): Coming Out of the Confusion 9. Disconnected Heroines, Icy Intelligence: The Psychopathology of the Isolated Female Detective in Contemporary Scandi-Noir TV Crime Fiction 10. Is Bondurant’s The Wettest County in the World really Lawless?