Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture
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 definit
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Roxie J. James Kathryn E. Lane
Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture
Roxie J. James · Kathryn E. Lane Editors
Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture
Editors Roxie J. James Department of English Northwestern Oklahoma State University Alva, OK, USA
Kathryn E. Lane Northwestern Oklahoma State University Alva, OK, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-39584-1 ISBN 978-3-030-39585-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39585-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
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“I Need a Hero:” Representation and Reinvention of the Criminal Hero in Mass Media Roxie J. James and Kathryn E. Lane
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Women, Crime, and Piracy in the Early Modern English Popular Imagination Lisa M. Lillie
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Criminality in Perspective and Politics of Legitimization: A Study in Paradox Sanchari Bhattacharyya
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“Said Some Things I Definitely (Don’t) Regret:” The Rhetorical Silence of American Vandal’s Criminal Heroine Renee Ann Drouin Exiles of Empire: Criminals as Heroes at the End of History in Jiang Wen’s Let the Bullets Fly Aleksander Sedzielarz
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Stand and Deliver: The Cinematic Representation of the Gentleman Highwayman in Plunkett & Macleane (1999) Kwasu D. Tembo
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“Something Feels Weird:” Managing the Identity of “Ex-Con” in American Gods Rebecca Frost
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Victims, Heroes, and Villains: Imaginary Beings in Contemporary Television Serials E. Deidre Pribram
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“Blurred Lines:” Reflections of the Criminal Hero Figure Roxie J. James and Kathryn E. Lane
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Index
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Notes on Contributors
Sanchari Bhatt
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