期刊名称：Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
电子版ISSN：1070-8286
出版年度：2003
卷号：10
期号：3
出版社：State University of New York at Albany
摘要：It was with eager anticipation that I sat down to read the esteemed British Film Institute's (BFI) The BFI Companion to Crime. This eagerness was prompted by the marriage of two phenomena, crime and film, that are the core of my research interests. Often such a strong sense of anticipation is bound to disappoint, but I am happy to report that this book despite some minor difficulties does not disappoint. It even exceeded expectations by prompting me to reflect on the relations between crime stories and criminology. The foundation of the book, laid out in the foreword by Richard Attenborough and the introduction by Phil Hardy, is based on a number of reasonable premises: that crime is a universal and trans-historical fact of recorded human history; that stories of crime have always accompanied empirical crime; and that crime stories, in particular filmed stories about crime, can provide the consumer of these crime stories with an interesting and unique understanding of themselves and others. Hardy and the various contributors to this work set out to survey and classify the main types of crime narratives in film to provide a resource for those interested in
