Crime FilmsCambridge University Press, 15 авг. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 383 This book surveys the entire range of crime films, including important subgenres such as the gangster film, the private eye film, film noir, as well as the victim film, the erotic thriller, and the crime comedy. Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger. Analyzing how each of the subgenres establishes oppositions among its ritual antagonists, he shows how the distinctions among them become blurred throughout the course of the century. This blurring, Leitch maintains, reflects and fosters a deep social ambivalence towards crime and criminals, while the criminal, victim and avenger characters effectively map the shifting relations between subgenres, such as the erotic thriller and the police film, within the larger genre of crime film that informs them all. |
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The Problem of the Crime Film | 1 |
Historical and Cultural Overview | 18 |
The Romance of the Silent Criminal | 20 |
Tough Guys | 23 |
The Crisis in Hollywood Crime | 29 |
Criminal Culture and Mass Culture | 35 |
The Establishment on Trial | 40 |
Criminal Anxieties Criminal Jokes | 44 |
Personal Books and Reference Books | 75 |
Fury and the Victim Film | 79 |
The Godfather and the Gangster Film | 103 |
Double Indemnity and the Film Noir | 126 |
Basic Instinct and the Erotic Thriller | 146 |
Murder on the Orient Express Blue Velvet and the UnofficialDetective Film | 170 |
Chinatown and the PrivateEye Film | 192 |
Bullitt and the Police Film | 215 |
Critical Overview | 52 |
Theories of Crime Fiction | 54 |
Hollywood Mythmaking | 56 |
Genre versus Auteur | 58 |
Thematic and Iconographic Analysis | 60 |
Structuralism and Beyond | 63 |
Feminist Critique | 69 |
Demystifications | 72 |
Reversal of Fortune and the Lawyer Film | 241 |
Fargo and the Crime Comedy | 265 |
Conclusion What Good Are Crime Films? | 289 |
Notes | 309 |
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FilmographyVideography | 341 |
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