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This title features highly original readings that shed new light on familiar movies. It is an unifying and largely original Marxist perspective that offers a fresh look at social relations as expressed in Hollywood cinema. It is a new construction of the category of the crime film, supported by an understanding of the importance of crime and crime cinema in cinema and society as a whole. No society is without crime, prompting Nathaniel Hawthorne's narrator to make his famous statement in 'The Scarlet Letter' that, however high its hopes are, no civilization can fail to allot a portion of its soil as the site of a prison. By establishing the category of crime - by drawing a line between the lawful and criminal, however thin, blurry, or even effectively meaningless the line may in practice become - society offers its own perhaps most consequential self-definition. Film, argues Carl Freedman, is an especially fruitful medium for considering questions like these.

Body Heat (Film) --- Body Heat (Motion picture) --- Double Indemnity (Film) --- Double Indemnity (Motion picture) --- Godfather, The (Film) --- Godfather, The (Motion pictures) --- Goodfellas (Film) --- Goodfellas (Motion picture) --- La fièvre au corps (Film) --- Les affranchis (Film) --- Parrain, Le (Film) --- Crime films --- Films criminels --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- United States --- Gangster films --- Coppola, Francis Ford --- Criticism and interpretation --- Scorsese, Martin --- Ford, John --- Wilder, Billy

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Film --- United States --- Asphalt Jungle, The (Film) --- Asphalt Jungle, The (Motion picture) --- Cities and towns in motion pictures --- Double Indemnity (Film) --- Double Indemnity (Motion picture) --- Killer's Kiss (Film) --- Killer's Kiss (Motion picture) --- Landscape in motion pictures --- Landschap in de film --- Paysage dans le cinéma --- Plunder Road (Film) --- Plunder Road (Motion picture) --- Steden in de film --- The Naked City (Motion picture) --- The naked City (Film) --- Villes dans le cinéma --- Film noir --- Films noirs --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Edward Dimendberg --- film --- twintigste eeuw --- film noir --- Verenigde Staten --- filmgeschiedenis --- filmtheorie --- ruimte --- urbanisme --- grootsteden --- New York --- Los Angeles --- film en architectuur --- film en stedenbouw --- kunst --- 791.43 --- 791.41 --- 791.43.01 --- Filmanalyse ; de stad in de film --- Film en het stedelijk landschap --- Film en architectuur --- Chandler, Raymond --- Hopper, Edward --- Kracauer, Siegfried --- Lefebvre, Henri --- Film noir ; Verenigde Staten ; 1940-1960 --- Filmkunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- CDL --- History and criticism --- United States of America