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Crime Films

Crime Films

Paperback

Series: Genres in American Cinema

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521646715
ISBN13: 9780521646710
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 15 2002
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
Awards: Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of three figures common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger. He shows how the distinctions among them become blurred throughout the course of the century, reflecting and fostering a deep social ambivalence towards crime and criminals. 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.

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