British crime cinema
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British crime cinema
(British popular cinema series)
Routledge, 1999
- : hbk.
- : pbk.
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Note
Filmography: p.[189]-251
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List if illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Parole overdue: releasing the British crime film into the critical community, 2. The censors and British gangland, 1913-1990, 3. Spin a dark web, 4. Outrage: No Orchids for Miss Blandish, 5. Men, women and money: masculinity in crisis in the British professional crime film 1946-1965, 6. The higher heel: women and the post-war British crime film, 7. The emergence of the British tough guy: Stanley Baker, masculinity and the crime thriller, 8. Ordinary people: 'New Wave' realism and the British crime film 1959-1963, 9. Performance: interview with Donald Cammell, 10. Mike Hodges discusses Get Carter with the NFT audience, 23 September 1997, 11. A revenger's tragedy - Get Carter, 12. Dog eat dog: The Squeeze and the Sweeney films, 13. Space in the British crime film, 14. Allegorising the nation: British gangster films of the 1980s, 15. From underworld to underclass: crime and British cinema in the 1990s, Index
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