{"product_id":"comic-book-crime-9780814767887","title":"Comic Book Crime","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnalyses how class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation are used to construct difference for both the heroes and the villains in ways that are both conservative and progressive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComic Book Crime is an important book devoted to a medium that has long been dismissed. -- Scott Elingburg * Popmatters *\u003cbr\u003eAnother important and original contribution to cultural criminology and the study of popular culture more generally. Phillips' and Strobl's work lays out the primacy of crime, violence, hegemony, and retribution to American conceptualizations of mythic justice. -- Michelle Brown,co-author of Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture\u003cbr\u003eCarrying ahead the project of cultural criminology, Phillips and Strobl dare to take seriously that which amuses and entertains usand to find in it the most significant of themes. Audiences, images, ideologies of justice and injusticeall populate the pages of Comic Book Crime. The result is an analysis as colorful as a good comic, and as sharp as the point on a superheros sword. -- Jeff Ferrell,author of Empire of Scrounge\u003cbr\u003eInnovative, exciting, and truly interdisciplinary, Phillips and Strobl pen a wonderful book on the iconic cultural figures in contemporary American comic books. Phillips and Strobl use criminal justice, criminology, law, history, sociology, and related social sciences to argue that comic books and the characters that inhabit those spaces constitute a rather comprehensive understanding of crime and justice in America. Phillips and Strobl's book is made up of 10 succinct chapters, all edgy and creative. The book's most persuasive component may be the final substantive chapter in which Phillips and Strobl present the impact of this attention to crime fighting, which has led to astronomical numbers of Americans incarcerated. If readers were to only read one chapter of the book, it should be the final chapter....Comic Book Crimeis an essential book for anyone interested in truth, justice, and the American way, but more importantly who defines those notions and how.Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- A.R.S. Lorenz * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003ePhilips and Strobl are criminologists, and they take a distinctly criminological approach to their examination of stories about law and order in comic books, but their book should appeal to all social science and humanities scholars with an interest in comics. The authors are also comic book insiders who volunteer to serve as patient mentors to those of us who are new to the genre, explaining key words like \u0026amp; retcon, and core processes like \u0026amp; crossover event. This is a very accessible guide for the comic book newcomer that is also mindful of \u0026amp; fanboy readers. * Men and Masculinities *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments1 Holy Criminology, Batman! Comics and Constructions of Crime and Justice 2 \"Crime Doesn't Pay\"A Brief History of Crime and Justice Themes in Comic Books 3 The World Is ShiftingTerrorism, Xenophobia, and Comic Books after 9\/11 4 A Better TomorrowApocalypse, Utopia, and the Crime Problem 5 \"That's the Trouble with a Bad Seed\"Villains and the Embodiment of Evil 6 \"Aren't We Supposed to Be the Good Guys?\"Heroes, Deathworthiness, and Paths to Justice 7 \"Take Down the Bad Guys, Save the Girl\"Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Comic Book Justice 8 \"Aren't There Any Brown People in This World?\"Race, Ethinicity, and Crime Fighting 9 Apocalyptic IncapacitationThe \"Maximum-Maximum\" Response to Crime 10 ConclusionUltimate Justice Appendix: Sample and methodology Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405904191831,"sku":"9780814767887","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814767887.jpg?v=1730493848","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/comic-book-crime-9780814767887","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}