Epistemology of Criminological Cinema

<p>Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and television series can provide an understanding of actual crimes and social harms.</p><p>Taking three social problems as its subjects – capitalist political economy structural injustice and racism – the book explores the ways in which David Fincher’s <em>Fight Club</em> (1999) HBO’s <em>Game of Thrones </em>(2011–2019) and Jordan Peele’s <em>Us</em> (2019) offer solutions by reconceiving justice in terms of personal and collective transformation utopian thinking and the relationship between racism and elitism respectively. In doing so the authors set out a theory of understanding the world based on cinematic and televisual works of art and conclude with a template that establishes a methodology for future use.</p><p><i>An Epistemology of Criminological Cinema</i> is authoritative and accessible ideal reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students criminologists philosophers and film television and literary critics with an interest in social justice and social harm.</p>