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Comic book crime : truth, justice, and the American way /
Carrying ahead the project of cultural criminology, [the authors] dare to take seriously that which amuses and entertains us--and to find in it the most significant of themes. Audiences, images, ideologies of justice and injustic--all populate the pages of [this book]. The result is an analysis as c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Alternative criminology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Holy criminology, Batman! : comics and constructions of crime and justice
- "Crime doesn't pay" : a brief history of crime and justice themes in comic books
- The world is shifting : terrorism, xenophobia, and comic books after 9/11
- A better tomorrow : apocalypse, utopia, and the crime problem
- "That's the trouble with a bad seed" : villains and the embodiment of evil
- "Aren't we supposed to be the good guys?" : heroes, deathworthiness, and paths to justice
- "Take down the bad guys, save the girl" : gender, sexual orientation, and comic book justice
- "Aren't there any brown people in this world?" : race, ethnicity, and crime fighting
- Apocalyptic incapacitation : the "maximum-maximum" response to crime
- Conclusion : ultimate justice
- Appendix : sample and methodology.