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The Introspective Realist Crime Film
Luis Garcia Mainar
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Description for The Introspective Realist Crime Film
Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 266 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
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. The crime film has traditionally been identified with suspense, a heterogeneous aesthetic and a tacit social mind. However, a good number of the crime films produced since the early 2000s have shifted their focus from action or suspense and towards melodrama in narratives that highlight the social dimension of crime, intensify their realist aesthetics and dwell on subjectivity. With the 1940s wave of Hollywood ... Read more
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. The crime film has traditionally been identified with suspense, a heterogeneous aesthetic and a tacit social mind. However, a good number of the crime films produced since the early 2000s have shifted their focus from action or suspense and towards melodrama in narratives that highlight the social dimension of crime, intensify their realist aesthetics and dwell on subjectivity. With the 1940s wave of Hollywood ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137496522
SKU
V9781137496522
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About Luis Garcia Mainar
Luis M. Garcia-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.
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