Street Crime, Gangs and Drugs

Seal, Lizzie

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-87488-9_5

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“…Sin embargo, la obra de Knight despliega un escenario de los años treinta en el que la ley del más fuerte, en este caso las bandas criminales, imperan en la ciudad de Birmingham, con el consentimiento de un cuerpo policial corrupto. Se recrea así un espacio habitual en el que conviven el crimen, las drogas y el machismo (Seal, 2022). En dicho escenario, para Long (2017) Peaky Blinders dota a sus personajes de una profunda complejidad psicológica y humanidad mientras se enfrentan a las secuelas de la guerra y las limitaciones y oportunidades de su entorno.…”

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Diferentes perspectivas ante las adicciones en la narrativa antiheroica de los personajes de Peaky Blinders

Vidal-Mestre,

Freire-Sánchez,

Gracia-Mercadé

2023

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Introduction: This research analyzes the narrative and the construction of the characters in the Peaky Blinders series (Knight, BBC, 2013, inspired by the real events that the criminal gang of the same name starred in at the beginning of the 20th century in Birmingham. The study aims to determine the different perspectives of its protagonists regarding addictions and drug abuse in the context of their time. Method: Through a methodological design based on the conceptual integration (Ruíz de Mendoza, 2009) of the theories on audiovisual narrative (Canet and Prósper, 2009), film criticism (Orellana, Almacellas and Watt, 2019), the mythical structure and creation of characters (Vogler, 2020) and the film and documentary analysis (Brisset, 2011), we analyze the characters of Peaky Blinders, their plots, narrative arcs and their role in the different seasons of the series. This study's purpose is to examine how drugs are represented in fiction and how they reflect the social imaginaries and the success and fall of characters and their time. Results and discussion: This analysis provides an interesting discussion on the representation of different types of drugs in the series. While opium is treated as part of the anti-heroic construction of the main character, cocaine serves as an activator for the violence and brutality of one of the secondary characters.

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Diferentes perspectivas ante las adicciones en la narrativa antiheroica de los personajes de Peaky Blinders

Vidal-Mestre,

Freire-Sánchez,

Gracia-Mercadé

2023

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“…However, Knight's work unfolds a scenario from the thirties in which the law of the strongest, in this case, criminal gangs, prevails in Birmingham with the consent of a corrupt police force. In this way, a habitual space is recreated in which crime, drugs, and machismo coexist (Seal, 2022). In such a setting, for Long (2017), Peaky Blinders endows its characters with deep psychological complexity and humanity as they face the aftermath of war and the constraints and opportunities of their environment.…”

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Different perspectives on addictions in the antiheroic narrative of Peaky Blinders characters

Vidal-Mestre,

Freire-Sánchez

2023

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Street Crime, Gangs and Drugs

Cited by 2 publications

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Diferentes perspectivas ante las adicciones en la narrativa antiheroica de los personajes de Peaky Blinders

Diferentes perspectivas ante las adicciones en la narrativa antiheroica de los personajes de Peaky Blinders

Different perspectives on addictions in the antiheroic narrative of Peaky Blinders characters

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