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Author Sloniowski, Jeannette

Title The Best Laid Plans : Interrogating the Heist Film
Published OnixTransformation. OnixModel. CityOfPublication : Wayne State University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages)
Series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ... of Heists and Men; 1. The International Heist Film; All for Naught: The American Heist Film in the Fifties; "What Price Glory?": Postwar British Heist Films; The Joy of Burglary: Wealth Relocation Strategies and Other Entertainments in the Postwar French Policier; From Nickel Mines to Plastic Vaginas: The Heist Genre in Canadian Cinema; 2. Gender, Race, and Class in the Heist Film; Men, Women, and the Heist Film; Masculinity, Morality, and Action: Michael Mann and the Heist Movie
Hollywood and the Black Stickup: Race and the Meaning of the Heist on the Big White ScreenThe Inevitability of Failure: The Small-Time Criminal and the Heist Film; 3. The Aesthetics and Ideology of the Heist Film; Economic Sentiments in Kubrick's The Killing and Furukawa's Cruel Gun Story; Heists and "Eye-sts": Sense and Sensuality in the Aesthetic Experience of the Heist Film; The Galerie Imaginaire of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Trilogy: Modernist Painting in the Contemporary Heist Film; September 11 as Heist; Select Filmography; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
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Subject Crime films.
Caper films -- History and criticism
Detective and mystery films -- History and criticism
Caper films.
Crime films.
Detective and mystery films.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Leach, Jim
Studlar, Gaylyn
Rayner, Jonathan
Carroll, Hamilton
Palmer, Tim
Henderson, Scott
Munby, Jonathan
Sloniowski, Jeannette
ISBN 9780814342251
0814342256