期刊名称：Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
电子版ISSN：1070-8286
出版年度：2009
卷号：16
期号：1
出版社：State University of New York at Albany
摘要：Through an analysis of the(2001) film The Believer, this paper develops atheory of (self)hate crime. In The Believer, the young protagonist Danny Balint is a Jew who hates Jews. I argue that in Danny'smind 'Jewishness' stands for the indeterminacy of postmodern human social life. In my analysis, Danny's hatred emerges out of a desperate and deeply modernist search for an essential identity, an identity not offered by the postmodern world of what Danny perceives to be'nothingness without end.' This analysis deepens current theories of hate crime by proposing that the bigotry and strain that purportedly underlie white hate crimecan be better understoodas an existential crisisin the face of radical indeterminacy
关键词："The Believer;" Hate crime; Postmodernism; Indeterminacy; Existential Crisis; ;Cultural Criminology.
