Crime, History, and Hollywood
Learning Criminal Justice History through Major Motion Pictures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15317065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Willard M Oliver (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 420-439 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Criminal Justice Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1051-1253 • E-ISSN: 1745-9117 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10511253.2010.519892 |
| OpenAlex | W2063036203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
In this article, the author discusses the pedagogical value of teaching a criminal justice history course through the use of major motion pictures. He examines the past use of film in academia, specifically the criminal justice academy, and highlights the gap in the literature associating historical films with criminal justice history. The article then proceeds to discuss the manner in which Hollywood often portrays history and include criminal justice history, and presents an example through the Steven Spielberg movie Amistad. The article also describes the author's experience in creating and teaching a criminal justice history films course
Art history · Criminal history · Criminal justice · Criminology · Hollywood · Motion (physics · Political science · Sociology · Theory of criminal justice · Cinema and Media Studies · Cinema History and Criticism · Computer Science · History · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Shots in the Mirror
History by Hollywood
Crime, Risk and Insecurity
Unthinking Eurocentrism
On Unthinking Eurocentrism
Movies in the classroom
May god have mercy on your soul!” Exploring and teaching a course on the death penalty
Challenging What They All Know
Using Movies to Illustrate Ethical Dilemmas in Undergraduate Criminal Justice Classes
Teaching literature in the criminal justice curriculum
Pop culture, crime and pedagogy
Teaching a course on prisons
The “Real” CSI
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Projecting the prison
Kill-n-tell (& all that jazz)
Monsters Inc
Re-theorizing the penal reform functions of the prison film
Con me if you can’
Crime, film and criminology
Mutiny on the Amistad
It Is as It Was
The Social Issue Courtroom Drama as an Expression of American Popular Culture
Heroes in Hard Times
From reel to ideal
The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts
Film
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |