British Crime Cinema (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Chibnall, Steve; Murphy, Robert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading writers on British popular film, this book includes interviews with key directors Mike Hodges (Get Carter) and Donald Cammel (Performance). It discusses an abundance of films including:
* acclaimed recent crime films such as Shallow Grave, Shopping, and Face.
* early classics like They Made Me A Fugitive
* acknowledged classics such as Brighton Rock and The Long Good Friday
* 50s seminal works including The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134702701
• Artikelnr.: 42710772

Autorenporträt

Steve Chibnall is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at de Montfort University, Leicester. Robert Murphy is senior Research Fellow at de Montfort University.

Inhaltsangabe

List if illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Parole overdue: releasing the British crime film into the critical community
Chapter 2: The censors and British gangland
1913-1990
Chapter 3: Spin a dark web
Chapter 4: Outrage: No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Chapter 5: Men
women and money: masculinity in crisis in the British professional crime film 1946-1965
Chapter 6: The higher heel: women and the post-war British crime film
Chapter 7: The emergence of the British tough guy: Stanley Baker
masculinity and the crime thriller
Chapter 8: Ordinary people: 'New Wave' realism and the British crime film 1959-1963
Chapter 9: Performance: interview with Donald Cammell
Chapter 10: Mike Hodges discusses Get Carter with the NFT audience
23 September 1997
Chapter 11: A revenger's tragedy - Get Carter
Chapter 12: Dog eat dog: The Squeeze and the Sweeney films
Chapter 13: Space in the British crime film
Chapter 14: Allegorising the nation: British gangster films of the 1980s
Chapter 15: From underworld to underclass: crime and British cinema in the 1990s
A filmography of British underworld films
1939-1997
Index

Rezensionen

'An all-encompassing study, there is much of interest to digest here.' - Film Review

'British Science Fiction Cinema British Crime Cinema The two books may be aimed more at students than buffs, but anyone who picks them up will find plenty of food for thought.' - Independent