An Epistemology of Criminological Cinema

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

Autorentext

David Gr ki is a philosopher and a film scholar who specializes in narrative aesthetics, film theory, and critical thinking. He is an associate lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka.

Rafe McGregor is the author of eight books, including The Value of Literature (2016) and Literary Theory and Criminology (2023). He is Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University in the UK, where he researches culture, political violence, and policing.

Inhalt

1 Introduction

2 Criminological cinema

3 Transformative justice

4 Utopian justice

5 Deterministic justice

6 Cinematic epistemology

7 Conclusion