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An Epistemology of Criminological Cinema

An Epistemology of Criminological Cinema

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media

PhilosophyTelevisionFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1032441216
ISBN13: 9781032441214
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 29 2025
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and television series can provide an understanding of actual crimes and social harms.

Taking three social problems as its subjects - capitalist political economy, structural injustice, and racism - the book explores the ways in which David Fincher's Fight Club (1999), HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-2019), and Jordan Peele's Us (2019) offer solutions by reconceiving justice in terms of personal and collective transformation, utopian thinking, and the relationship between racism and elitism, respectively. In doing so, the authors set out a theory of understanding the world based on cinematic and televisual works of art and conclude with a template that establishes a methodology for future use.

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