Criminals As Heroes In Popular Culture

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Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture

Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 183
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ISBN-10 : 9783030395858
ISBN-13 : 3030395855
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Book Synopsis Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture by : Roxie J. James

Download or read book Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture written by Roxie J. James and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into humanity’s compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasure in watching people behave badly. This book offers an analysis of the varied and vexing definitions of hero, criminal, and criminal heroes both historically and culturally. This book also examines the global presence, gendered complications, and gentle juxtapositions in criminal hero figures such as: Robin Hood, Breaking Bad, American Gods, American Vandal, Kabir, Plunkett and Macleane, Martha Stewart, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s Eleven, and Let The Bullets Fly.


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