Using analytical tools from cultural studies, social semiotics, media studies, and sociology, this course investigates media representations of crime in popular culture, asking how we imagine ‘crime’ and ‘criminal’, what effects these images have, and how they encapsulate representations of law, order, and authority.
Using analytical tools from cultural studies, social semiotics, media studies, and sociology, this course investigates media representations of crime in popular culture, asking how we imagine ‘crime’ and ‘criminal’, what effects these images have, and how they encapsulate representations of law, order, and authority.
