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Beskrivning
This book explores the formal and thematic conventions of crime film, the contexts in which these have flourished and their links with the social issues of a globalized world.
Luis M. García-Mainar is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He is the author of Clint Eastwood: de actor a autor (2006) and his work has appeared in, among other journals, Screening the Past, CineAction and Journal of Film and Video.
Innehållsförteckning
List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Introspective Realist Crime Film.- 3. The Context of the Introspective Realist Crime Film.- 4. Pictorial Realism and Introspection.- 5. A Documentary Aesthetic of Helplessness.- 6. Postcards of Sympathy from the Periphery.- 7. Complex Narrative and Social Melodrama.- 8. Conclusion.-