R. Penfold-Mounce

Gebundenes Buch

Celebrity Culture and Crime

The Joy of Transgression

Beschreibung

In the 21st century celebrities and celebrity culture thrives. This book explores the much noted but little analyzed relationship between celebrity and crime. Criminals who become celebrities and celebrities who become criminals are examined, drawing on Foucault's theory of governance.

Autor

RUTH PENFOLD-MOUNCE is Lecturer in Criminology, University of York, UK. Her research interests include celebrity in relation to gossip, crime, victimization, consumerism and medicine as well as criminological theory, fascination and spectacle.

Produktdetails

• Cultural Criminology
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-22468-1
• 2009 edition
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780230224681
• ISBN-10: 0230224687
• Artikelnr.: 26925697

Rezensionen

'By bringing the study of celebrity and criminality together and highlighting the many forms of interconnections between them, the book elucidates our often fractious engagement and fascination with both arenas...one can only hope that Penfold-Mounce's book will serve as a valuable prompt for further scholarship on this enormously rich topic.' - Crime, Media, Culture