EXPOS 20.058 - The Art of Crime

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

This course examines the problem of criminality from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, focusing especially on the representation of crime in fiction and film. Beginning with nineteenth-century anthropological debates on the origins of criminality, the course proceeds to consider the ominous figure of the criminal in Victorian detective fiction, a twentieth-century American novel, and contemporary serial killer films, as well as the historical and disciplinary contexts that give such representations their cultural power.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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