Monday 23 February 2015

White Collar Complex - The Name of Our Film

White Collar Complex

White-collar crime refers to financially motivated nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals. Within criminology, it was first defined by sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation".

This makes the name relate to our storyline of embezzlement, also there is a pun as our characters are female and spend a lot of the money they steal on clothes. Therefore the 'collar' of 'White-Collar' connotes the collar of an item of clothing. 

In addition to this, 'Complex' defined is:
  1. - consisting of many different and connected parts.
    a group or system of different things that are linked in a close or complicated way; a network.
  2. and
  1. PSYCHOANALYSIS
    - a related group of repressed or partly repressed emotionally significant ideas which cause psychic conflict leading to abnormal mental states or behaviour.
All these definitions relate to the story

The alliteration "Collar Complex" also makes it catchy, rolls off the tongue!








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