Overview
- Offers a culturally-oriented analysis of urban crime control through cinema
- Focusses on crime control measures of private and preventative policing, mass incarceration & extrajudicial killing
- Appeals across a broad range of social sciences, humanities and arts subjects
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture (PSCMC)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book uses popular films to understand the convergence of crime control and the ideology of repression in contemporary capitalism. It focuses on the cinematic figure of the fallen guardian, a protagonist who, in the course of a narrative, falls from grace and becomes an enemy of the established social order. The fallen guardian is a figure that allows for the analysis of a particular crime control measure through the perspective of both an enforcer and a target. The very notion of ‘justice’ is challenged, and questions are posed in relation to the role that films assume in the reproduction of policing as it is. In doing so, the book combines a historical far-reaching perspective with popular culture analysis. At the core remains the value of the cinematic figure of the fallen guardian for contemporary understandings of urban space and urban crime control and how films are clear examples of the ways in which the ideology of repression is reproduced.
This book questions thejustifications that are often given for social control in cities and understands cinema as a medium for offering critique of such processes and justifications. Explored are the crime control measures of private policing in relation to RoboCop (1987), preventative policing and Minority Report (2002), mass incarceration in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and extra-judicial killing in Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The book speaks to those interested in crime control in critical criminology, cultural criminology, urban studies, and beyond.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Crime Control in Cinema
Book Subtitle: Fallen Guardians and the Ideology of Repression
Authors: Vladimir Rizov
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12978-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12977-3Published: 12 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12980-3Published: 12 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12978-0Published: 11 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-3912
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3920
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 228
Topics: Crime and the Media, Crime Control and Security, Policing, Prison and Punishment, Audio-Visual Culture, Sociology of Culture