Eugene McNulty is Lecturer in English at St Patrick's College (Dublin City University), Ireland. His publications include Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival (2008). Patricia Pulham is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is author of Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales (2006), and co-editor of stories by Lee, Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales (2006) and of Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics (2006).

This exciting collection of essays discusses a wide variety of subjects—including film noir, violence and gender, crime fictions, the hit man, and true crime—under the heading of ‘crime culture,' a concept that is both original and thought-provoking. This cutting-edge volume is essential reading for anyone interested in crime narratives.

• Acknowledgements ContributorsIntroduction: Crime Culture and Modernity Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham, Eugene McNultyPart 1 Breaking Boundaries: Games, Art & the ImagePlaying Dead: Crime as a Social System Mark SeltzerPsychopathology as a Game: J.G. Ballard and Conceptual Crime Benjamin NoysCrime, Abjection, Transgression and the Image John LechtePart 2: Revisiting NoirThe Female Side of Crime:Film Noir's Femme Fatale and The Dark Side of Modernity Elisabeth BronfenPost-war American Noir: Confronting Fordism Andrew PepperPart 3: Vixens and Victims: Criminal FemininitiesDead Dolls and Deadly Dames: The Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing Lee HorsleyContemporary African American Women's Crime and Mystery Novels Linden PeachPart 4 : Angels of Death: Criminal MasculinitiesKiller Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A Páraic FinnertyThe Angel of Death: Targetting the Hitman Andrew SpicerPart 5: Reading the Criminal OtherRisk Management: Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the Shadowing of Pleasure Christopher WilsonPolice Thy Neighbour: Crime Culture and the Rear Window Paradigm Bran NicolIndex

Eugene McNulty is Lecturer in English at St Patrick's College (Dublin City University), Ireland. His publications include Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival (2008). Patricia Pulham is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is author of Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales (2006), and co-editor of stories by Lee, Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales (2006) and of Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics (2006).

This exciting collection of essays discusses a wide variety of subjects—including film noir, violence and gender, crime fictions, the hit man, and true crime—under the heading of ‘crime culture,' a concept that is both original and thought-provoking. This cutting-edge volume is essential reading for anyone interested in crime narratives.

• Acknowledgements ContributorsIntroduction: Crime Culture and Modernity Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham, Eugene McNultyPart 1 Breaking Boundaries: Games, Art & the ImagePlaying Dead: Crime as a Social System Mark SeltzerPsychopathology as a Game: J.G. Ballard and Conceptual Crime Benjamin NoysCrime, Abjection, Transgression and the Image John LechtePart 2: Revisiting NoirThe Female Side of Crime:Film Noir's Femme Fatale and The Dark Side of Modernity Elisabeth BronfenPost-war American Noir: Confronting Fordism Andrew PepperPart 3: Vixens and Victims: Criminal FemininitiesDead Dolls and Deadly Dames: The Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing Lee HorsleyContemporary African American Women's Crime and Mystery Novels Linden PeachPart 4 : Angels of Death: Criminal MasculinitiesKiller Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A Páraic FinnertyThe Angel of Death: Targetting the Hitman Andrew SpicerPart 5: Reading the Criminal OtherRisk Management: Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the Shadowing of Pleasure Christopher WilsonPolice Thy Neighbour: Crime Culture and the Rear Window Paradigm Bran NicolIndex

Eugene McNulty is Lecturer in English at St Patrick's College (Dublin City University), Ireland. His publications include Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival (2008). Patricia Pulham is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is author of Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales (2006), and co-editor of stories by Lee, Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales (2006) and of Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics (2006).

This exciting collection of essays discusses a wide variety of subjects—including film noir, violence and gender, crime fictions, the hit man, and true crime—under the heading of ‘crime culture,' a concept that is both original and thought-provoking. This cutting-edge volume is essential reading for anyone interested in crime narratives.

• Acknowledgements ContributorsIntroduction: Crime Culture and Modernity Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham, Eugene McNultyPart 1 Breaking Boundaries: Games, Art & the ImagePlaying Dead: Crime as a Social System Mark SeltzerPsychopathology as a Game: J.G. Ballard and Conceptual Crime Benjamin NoysCrime, Abjection, Transgression and the Image John LechtePart 2: Revisiting NoirThe Female Side of Crime:Film Noir's Femme Fatale and The Dark Side of Modernity Elisabeth BronfenPost-war American Noir: Confronting Fordism Andrew PepperPart 3: Vixens and Victims: Criminal FemininitiesDead Dolls and Deadly Dames: The Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing Lee HorsleyContemporary African American Women's Crime and Mystery Novels Linden PeachPart 4 : Angels of Death: Criminal MasculinitiesKiller Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A Páraic FinnertyThe Angel of Death: Targetting the Hitman Andrew SpicerPart 5: Reading the Criminal OtherRisk Management: Frank Abagnale, Jr. and the Shadowing of Pleasure Christopher WilsonPolice Thy Neighbour: Crime Culture and the Rear Window Paradigm Bran NicolIndex