Research Catalog

Title

Monsters in and among us : toward a Gothic criminology / edited by Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek.

Publication

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-
• Greek, Cecil E.

Description

304 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Police films > United States > History and criticism
• Gothic revival (Literature)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: toward a Gothic criminology / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek -- Bodies under scandal: civic Gothic as genre / Edward J. Ingebretsen -- "My, that's a big one": masculinity and monstrosity in Dirty Harry / Davis W. Houck -- Mother and monster: the rhetorical structure of The man who knew too much / Thomas Benson -- The substance abuse film and the Gothic: typology, narrative, and hallucination / Jason Grant McKahan -- Making a killing in the marketplace: incorporation as a monstrous process / Pat Gill -- The big city rogue cop as monster: images of NYPD and LAPD / Cecil Greek -- Gothic criminology and criminal justice policy / Raymond Surette -- The compulsion of real/reel serial killers and vampires: toward a Gothic criminology / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek -- Profiling the terrorist as a mass murderer / Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek.

Call Number

MFL 08-1793

ISBN

• 9780838641590 (alk. paper)
• 0838641598 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007005479

OCLC

83758538

Title

Monsters in and among us : toward a Gothic criminology / edited by Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek.

Imprint

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-

Greek, Cecil E.

Research Call Number

MFL 08-1793