British Crime Film. is a celebratory and comprehensive social history of thisidiosyncratic genre. Barry Forshaw focuses on the strategies used to address more radical notions than those presented in mainstream product, exploring such themes as the treatment of sex and violence, corporate crime and the maverick criminal. Covering every major - and most minor - British crime films up to and including the twenty-first century, Forshaw contextualises the films within the crime fiction that inspired them. He explores new developments includingBritish urban crime movies and the wave of new crime/horror hybrids such as. Kill List., and predicts what the future holds for the genre. INDICE: A Social History of the Crime Film.The Age of Austerity: Post-war Crime Movies.Class and Crime: Social Divisions.Between Left and Right: Politics and Individuals.Heritage Britain.Shame of a Nation: Juvenile Delinquents andExploitation.The New Violence: The Loss of Innocence.Scourging the Unacceptable: Censorship Battles.Metropolitan Murder: London.The Regions.Breaking Taboos: Sex and the Crime Film.Corporate Crime: Curtains for the Maverick.Mockney Menace: The New Wave.The Age of Acquisition: New Crime.21st Century Hybrids.The Directors: Makers of Key Crime Films.APPENDIX 1: The Directors: Makers of Key Crime Films.APPENDIX 2: TV Crime.APPENDIX 3: Crime and Espionage.APPENDIX 4: Films, TV and Books.Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-1370-0503-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 20/09/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido