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British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order (Crime Files) Book

British Crime Film is a celebratory and comprehensive social history of this idiosyncratic 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 including British urban crime movies and the wave of new crime/horror hybrids such as Kill List and predicts what the future holds for the genre.Read More

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    British Crime Film : Hardback : Palgrave Macmillan : 9780230303706 : 0230303706 : 30 Oct 2012 : Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney"" productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works."

  • Waterstones

    Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day

  • 0230303706
  • 9780230303706
  • Barry Forshaw
  • 24 August 2012
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 192
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