Search results for “[Subject: film-genres-crime]”

• Author(s): Thomas M. Leitch • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesFocusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformatio...

• Author(s): Larry Langman • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesRecent crime films such as Scarface, the Dirty Harry series, and The Godfather have captured the American imagination, but they ...

• Author(s): David Grčki | Rafe McGregor • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - Genres - CrimeStanding at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and te...

• Author(s): Matthew Sorrento • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The American crime film has recently enjoyed a surge in popularity and proliferation, making i...

• Author(s): Roberto Curti | Frank LaFond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Action & Adventure The 1970s were a pivotal decade for thrillers in French cinema and crime f...

• Author(s): David Grcki • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - Genres - CrimeStanding at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and televis...

• Author(s): Geoff King • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismHow is crime represented in art cinema? And how can this be understood in the context of global sociopolitica...

• Author(s): Steve Chibnall | Robert Murphy • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIncluding interviews with key directors including Mike Hodges and Donald Cammel, this book analyzes films suc...

• Author(s): John Howard Reid • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralCrime is not exactly a risky business for movie makers. In fact, this category has always been high on Hollywood's agenda, and there are very few cr...

• Author(s): Geoff Mayer • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and...

• Author(s): Henrik Gustafsson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book offers a rare and innovative consideration of an enduring tendency in postwar art to explore places devoid o...

• Author(s): Emmanuel Chatillon • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: GeneralFrançois Truffaut disait très justement: Le cinéma est un mélange parfait de vérité et de spectacle, il décrivait ai...

• Author(s): David A. Mackey | Eric S. See | Sarah A. See • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: CriminologyThe 1970s was a pivotal era for crime and criminal justice films in the United States. Many fi...

• Author(s): Donald Shaw • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Con Artists, Hoaxes & DeceptionsTrue Crime (Rating R)The Veil of Piety, ? an actual police case from 1970 is authored by the D...

• Author(s): Emmanuel Chatillon • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: GeneralUne fois de plus j'ai pris conscience des dangers que pouvaient engendrer certains films retraçant des affaires crim...

• Author(s): Emmanuel Chatillon • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: GeneralGérard Bouladou m'avait toujours dit, il faut prendre les affaires criminelles traitées au cinéma avec beaucoup de p...

• Author(s): David Cotner • Publisher: Nine-Banded Books • Publisher Imprint: Nine-Banded Books • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismOnce in a century, a book comes along that both defines a genre - and defies it. This is that century. This is ...

• Author(s): Karen Fang • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWhen Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the cit...

• Author(s): Andrew Spicer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFilm Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural pheno...

• Author(s): Sidney D. Kirkpatrick • Publisher: Booksurge Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Booksurge Publishing • BISAC: Murder - GeneralOn February 1, 1922, the distinguished silent-film director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Lo...

• Author(s): Malcah Effron • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new crit...

• Author(s): Casey Sherman • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Murder - GeneralUSA TODAY BESTSELLER"A wild ride beneath the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood, proving once again that Case...

• Author(s): Colin Cotterill • Publisher: Soho Crime • Publisher Imprint: Soho Crime • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - International Crime & MysteryAn enchanting new standalone novel from CWA Dagger winner Colin Cotterill, set in Bangkok: a ...

• Author(s): Fergus Mason • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralSome of Hollywood's greatest movies have been based on real life crimes. This anth...

• Author(s): Jessica Urwin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CriminologyAnalysing the representation of youth crime and justice-involved children in popular fictional films, this book explores how what we s...

• Author(s): Tim Bergfelder • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Telecommunications West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively kn...

• Author(s): Peter Lovesey • Publisher: Soho Crime • Publisher Imprint: Soho Crime • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - HistoricalIn this witty standalone masterpiece set during the golden age of silent cinema, a British vaudeville performer turned...

• Author(s): Barbara Pezzotti • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: European - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historic...

• Author(s): Fergus Mason • Publisher: Minute Help, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Minute Help, Inc. • BISAC: Murder - GeneralRead the crime that inspired the movie! They wanted to create the Perfect Crime--to kidnap and murder a 14-year-old boy for t...

• Author(s): Philip Swanson | Ailsa Peate | Carlos Uxo • Publisher: Tamesis Books • Publisher Imprint: Tamesis Books • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanThe first integrated overview in English of Latin American crime fiction, a flourishing ge...

• Author(s): Patrick Downey • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralThe lives of Hollywood's early movie stars have become the stuff of legend; the ...

• Author(s): Martin Priestman • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Mystery & Detective FictionIn addition to covering the "detective" fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agat...

• Author(s): Ernesto Gastaldi • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralE' la sceneggiatura originale del film diretto da Umberto Lenzi e interpretato da Tomas Milian. E' la storia criminale di ...

• Author(s): Monalisa Ken • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsWhat would you do if you found $24 million in cash-and keeping it meant betraying everything you stand...

• Author(s): Federico Varese • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: GeneralThe systematic study of organized crime dates back to John Landesco's classic of ethnography, Organized C...

• Author(s): Rafe McGregor • Publisher: Bristol University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bristol University Press • BISAC: CriminologyCriminology has been reluctant to embrace fictional narratives as a tool for understanding, explaining and reducing...