Laura Huey: Crime behind the glass: Exploring the sublime in crime at the Vienna Kriminalmuseum. In: Theoretical Criminology, November 2011, 15: 381-399, here p. 384. Abstract: “Scholars have noted an ever-increasing growth in the number of crime-themed leisure and tourism venues. Within this article I examine one such site: the Vienna Kriminalmuseum. An analysis of this site provides an opportunity to explore how the ‘sublime in crime’ is presented to the Museum’s visitors in ways that intentionally merge the macabre with the educational. This presentation says much, I suggest, not only about the Museum’s goals, but about its intended audience, an audience seeking to be exposed to elements of the darkest side of humanity, now sanitized for wider public consumption through the union of educational and entertainment strategies”.
Der theoretische Rahmen des Aufsatzes stammt im wesentlichen von Burke, Kant, Schiller und Seltzer. Lesenswert, obwohl Überraschungen ausbleiben.
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