ATS2457 Chapter Notes -Film Noir, Moral Panic, Case Report
7 Oct 2013
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Crime, media & popular culture i: crime films. Used to counter the argument that there is too much violence in the media. Implies that consuming violent media allows viewers to release feelings of anger, frustration or aggression in a vicarious but safe manner. Highly stylised cinematic crime genre usually characterised by a hard-boiled cynicism and sexual motivations. The pattern of progression in a storyline (beginning, middle, end). Attempts to describe something as it is without idealisation or romantic subjectivity. Visually media reporting, exaggerated things creating moral panic, graphic images, etc. Understanding images are part of the analysis not just the facts of the crime. Insofar as cultural criminology is concerned with the multiple intersections between crime, deviance, control and symbolic representation, then the study of film would appear to be a necessary element of any such project: branch of cc. The moving image (hence the movie ) was the quintessential and dominant cultural form of the 20th century.
