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Crime (Paperback)
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Crime (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks
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Crime films have, since the earliest days of cinema, been popular
with audiences, industry and critics alike and encompassed a
diverse range of subjects, styles and themes. The genre provides a
range of pleasures for the spectator, from taking on the role of
the detective in the pursuit of clues in the 'whodunit', to the
more illicit thrills of identification with an anti hero. In the
many incarnations of the crime film such as the gangster, film
noir, political and detective thrillers, the genre explores the
anxieties of different historical moments. Sarah Casey Benyahia
provides an overview of the development of the crime film and
examines the key theories and ideas involved in the study of the
genre. These include; the investigative structure and narration of
the crime film, the aesthetics of violence and issues of
representation and ideology. These areas are explored through
contemporary and classic, Hollywood and European cinema with case
studies on the history of the genre, the role of the detective, the
'family crime' film and the conspiracy thriller. Crime provides a
broad framework to the study of the genre through the introduction
of narrative, genre and audience theories as well as detailed
analysis of specific films. Films discussed include: Scarface
(1932) Mildred Pierce (1945) Dirty Harry (1971) The Parallax View
(1974) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Mystic River (2002) Hidden (2005) Gone
Baby Gone (2007) Zodiac (2007) The Millennium Trilogy (2009) The
Secret in Their Eyes (2010)
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