Crime and Culture Notes

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Crime and Culture Comprehensive Notes: Topics Covered Week 1: Screen Violence and the Production of Meaning — cultural criminology, Jack Katz and the seductions of crime, rational sinners vs strained saints, genre analysis, visual criminology, realism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and existentialism Week 2: Narrative — narrative criminology, realist vs constitutive narrative, discourse theory, interpellation, and spectatorship (case study: Psycho) Week 3: Decoding Images and Visual Practices — Marxist and poststructuralist film analysis, encoding/decoding, preferred readings, Hall's ideology, traditional vs critical representations of crime, spectatorship and violence (case studies: The Matrix, Natural Born Killers, Elephant) Week 4: Popular Criminology — film and crime causation, biological/environmental/strain explanations, necroculture, interrogating prison and police representations (case studies: Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, We Own This City) Week 6: Sexual Violence on Screen — phenomenology of the feminine, De Beauvoir, sex scripts, the male gaze, rape revenge narratives, coercive control (case studies: Thelma and Louise, Promising Young Woman, The Accused) Week 7: Serial Killing — modernity and serial killing, biopower, necropolitics, Haggerty's six modern phenomena, serial killer subgenres, social imaginaries (case studies: Monster, American Psycho, Seven) Week 8: Terrorism — orientalism, dominant encodings of terrorism, biopower/necropower, far-right terror, condensation and displacement (case study: Zero Dark Thirty) Week 9: Race and Stereotypes — Dyer's four functions of stereotypes, Stuart Hall, colonial gaze, representations of indigeneity (case studies: Birth of a Nation, Australia, Walkabout) Week 10: Decolonisation, Resistance, and Sovereignty — decolonial encoding, hyperreality, Baudrillard, the NT Intervention, Indigenous ontologies (case study: Samson and Delilah) Week 11: Multiple Sensoria — fantasy and fetish, trans panics in film, non-representational thought, video games and embodied experience Format: 10 weeks of content, structured bullet points, 50 pages.