43 research outputs found
Public History and the study of Law: reviewing The Limehouse Golem (2017). Directed by Juan Carlos Medina [film]. 109 min. UK. Production: Lipsync Post, Number 9 Films.
This is an interdisciplinary discussion, looking at the use of popular history for the critical understanding of the reconstruction of crime and patriarchal hierarchy. By way of reviewing the recent movie The Limehouse Golem, it illustrates the significance of theoretically engaging with a period crime fiction movie. It is argued that this assessment is less relevant in terms of producing historical understanding; rather, what may be a fiction, reveals instead our own contemporary cultural fixations
Shots In The Mirror: Crime Films And Society
https://works.swarthmore.edu/alum-books/2464/thumbnail.jp
White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies, 1877-1919
https://works.swarthmore.edu/alum-books/4488/thumbnail.jp
Shots In The Mirror: Crime Films And Society
https://works.swarthmore.edu/alum-books/2465/thumbnail.jp