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"Quinqui" film in Spain : peripheries of society and myths on the margins
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ISBN: 1785272306 1785272292 Year: 2020 Publisher: London : Anthem Press,

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This volume of essays focuses on films of the so-called 'quinqui' genre, films created during the 1970s-1980s depicting the lives of young criminals from the outskirts of Spanish cities, that arose/spread during the uncertain transitional period in a Spain moving from a dictatorship to a democracy. The 'quinqui' films, produced and released on a shoestring budget, were nonetheless immensely popular, although never fully considered as part of the national film production in academic circles due to their 'B' nature and low quality. These films encapsulate many of the concerns that Spaniards were facing (unemployment, class conflict and disparity, wild economic growth, increasing violence and crime activity, illegal drugs ravaging the youth, etc.) and consequently they had an impact on social, cultural, and emotional levels in the reborn country. In addition to recent interest in these films as cultural products, this book presents a thorough and multi-perspective analysis of the implications for film and society that these films reveal, clarifying both: the Spanish filmic panorama as well as the canon, and the socio-political situation in a country that was going through one of the most controversial and tumultuous times of its contemporary history.

Dreams and dead ends : the American gangster film
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ISBN: 0195142918 0195142926 0195302753 1280531274 0198032633 1602567999 9780198032632 9780195142921 9780195142914 9780195302752 9786610531271 6610531277 9781280531279 9781602567993 0199881707 0197723861 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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This work provides a history of the 20th-century American gangster film. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films that best define and exemplify each period in the development of the American crime film.


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Dreams and dead ends : the American gangster/crime film.
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ISBN: 0262191598 Year: 1977 Publisher: Cambridge MIT press

Mob culture : hidden histories of American gangster film.
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ISBN: 0813535573 0813535565 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Brunswick Rutgers university press

Film noir : the dark side of the screen
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ISBN: 0306802031 Year: 1981 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Da Capo

Crime films
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ISBN: 1107128064 0511040288 0511148534 0511556187 0511606451 0511051514 9780511040283 9780511606458 9780511051517 0511036280 9780511036286 9780511148538 9786612389283 6612389281 9780511643118 051164311X 0521641063 0521646715 9780521641067 9780521646710 9780511556180 9781107128064 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book surveys the entire range of crime films, including important subgenres such as the gangster film, the private eye film, film noir, as well as the victim film, the erotic thriller, and the crime comedy. Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger. Analyzing how each of the subgenres establishes oppositions among its ritual antagonists, he shows how the distinctions among them become blurred throughout the course of the century. This blurring, Leitch maintains, reflects and fosters a deep social ambivalence towards crime and criminals, while the criminal, victim and avenger characters effectively map the shifting relations between subgenres, such as the erotic thriller and the police film, within the larger genre of crime film that informs them all.

British crime cinema
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ISBN: 0415168708 0415168694 9780415168694 9780415168700 9780203979914 0203979915 1134702701 1280139021 9786610139026 6610139024 9781134702701 9781280139024 9781134702657 9781134702695 1134702698 Year: 1999 Volume: *2 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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This is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading writers on British popular film, this book includes interviews with key directors Mike Hodges (Get Carter) and Donald Cammel (Performance). It discusses an abundance of films including:* acclaimed recent crime films such as Shallow Grave, Shopping, and Face.* early classics like They Made Me A Fugitive* acknowledged classics such as Brighton Rock and The Long Good Friday* 50


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Unfinished Business
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ISBN: 1442668318 9781442668317 1442668326 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto

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Unfinished Business argues that trauma that has yet to be worked through on the national level is displaced onto the characters in the films under consideration. In a mafia context, female characters are sacrificed and non-normative sexual identities are suppressed in order to solidify traditional modes of viewer identification and to assure narrative closure, all so that the image of the nation is left unblemished."--Pub. desc "Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade. It provides insightful analyses of popular films that sensationalize violence, scapegoat women, or repress the homosexuality of male protagonists. Dana Renga examines these works through the lens of gender and trauma theory to show how the films engage with the process of mourning and healing mafia-related trauma in Italy

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Mafia in motion pictures. --- Gangster films --- Psychic trauma in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures and women. --- Women and motion pictures --- Women --- Motion pictures --- Bandit gangster films --- Gang films --- Gangland films --- Hoodlum drama (Motion pictures) --- Mafia films --- Organized crime films --- Outlaw-couple films --- Outlaw gangster films --- Rural bandit films --- Syndicate films --- Syndicate-oriented films --- Crime films --- History and criticism. --- Italien --- Italy. --- Italia --- Italian Republic --- Italianska republika --- Italʹi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika --- Italie --- Italii͡ --- Italii͡a Respublikasi --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- Īṭāliy --- Italiya Respublikasi --- It'allia --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- Iṭalyah --- Iṭalye --- Itaria --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- Laško --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Olasz Köztársaság --- Olaszország --- Regno d'Italia --- Repubblica italiana --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Włochy --- Yidali --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Italy --- Königreich Italien --- Repubblica Italiana --- Olaszorszaǵ --- Olasz Koz̈taŕsasaǵ --- Italienische Republik --- République Italienne --- Yidali-gongheguo --- Italiener --- Königreich Sardinien --- Republik von Salò --- 17.03.1861 --- -Mafia in motion pictures. --- -Italia

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