Monatliches Archiv: Januar 2011

Crime Fiction etc. (Forschung)

Ilana Shiloh: The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room. Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film. New York [et al.]: Lang 2011. Verlagsanzeige (inkl. ToC): “Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre [...]

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Überwachen und eingreifen: Your home is not your castle.

Jeannie Suk: At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming Privacy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2009. Verlagsanzeige: Suk examines case studies of major legal developments in contemporary American law pertaining to domestic violence, self-defense, privacy, sexual autonomy, and property in order to illuminate the changing relation between home [...]

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“Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange as art against torture”

By Carolyn Strange, in Crime Media Culture, December 2010 6: 267-284. Abstract: “Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (ACO) has generated considerable debate over the effects of violence and its representation, but its depiction of torture has inspired little scholarly consideration of the film as art against torture. Produced in the early 1970s, it expressed the era’s [...]

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Epiphanie

Preußens bei 3Sat (6.1. — Programm): “Abgestandene Ware findet auf dem Markt keine Käufer.” Von wegen, lieber van Asten!

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Representing Justice

(Ausschnitt aus Ludwig Stutz (1865-1917): Frau Justitia als bayerische Pfarrersköchin. In: Kladderadatsch. — Jg. 59, Nr. 24. — S. 96. — 1906-06-18; vollständiges Bild; Quelle). A propos Representing Justice. Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms. By Judith Resnik and Dennis E. Curtis. Yale University Press 2011. Verlagsanzeige (mit Links etc.): “By mapping [...]

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