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1 online resource (269 pages) |
Series |
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series |
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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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 |
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Crime films.
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Caper films -- History and criticism
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Detective and mystery films -- History and criticism
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Caper films.
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Crime films.
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Detective and mystery films.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Leach, Jim
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Studlar, Gaylyn
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Rayner, Jonathan
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Carroll, Hamilton
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Palmer, Tim
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Henderson, Scott
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Munby, Jonathan
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Sloniowski, Jeannette
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ISBN |
9780814342251 |
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0814342256 |
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