Captive Images: Race, Crime, Photography

by Biber; Katherine

• ISBN13: 9780415420396
• ISBN10: 0415420393
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-04-19
• Publisher: Cavendish Pub Ltd

Summary

Captive Images examines the law?s treatment of photographic evidence and uses it to investigate the relationship between law, image and fantasy. Based around the scholarly examination of a bank robbery, in which a surveillance camera captures the robbery in progress, Katherine Biber draws upon critical writing from psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, art, law, literature and feminism to 'read' this crime, its texts and its images. The result is an interdisciplinary study of crime that unfolds a compelling narrative about race relations, national identity and fear. This book is an essential read for all levels of law students studying, or interested in, law, criminology and cultural studies.

Author Biography

Katherine Biber is a legal scholar and historian in the Division of Law at Macquarie University, Australia

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Table of cases and documents	p. xvii
The hooded bandit	p. 1
The national bank	p. 27
The epidermal examination	p. 45
The mother's trouble	p. 72
The danger zone	p. 83
The spectre	p. 98
Your fantasy, my crime	p. 113
Bibliography	p. 125
Index	p. 135
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