5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
A 1922 German silent film by Fritz Lang about Dr. Mabuse, a criminal genius who manipulates the Weimar Republic's collapsing society.
A 1995 film by Michael Mann depicting the obsessive cat-and-mouse between a veteran LAPD detective and a meticulous professional thief across the sprawl of Los Angeles.
A 2008 film by Christopher Nolan in which Batman faces the anarchic Joker across a sprawling, morally corroded Gotham City.
A 1972 film by Sidney Lumet in which Sean Connery plays a detective whose decades of encountering evil have made him morally indistinguishable from the criminal he interrogates.
A 1933 German sound film by Fritz Lang in which the institutionalized Dr. Mabuse dictates manifestos from a mental asylum -- making the film an anti-Nazi allegory.