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Book synopsis

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.

Book details

Book category Książki po angielsku The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: British Crime Film
• Author: Barry Forshaw
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9781137005038
• ISBN: 1137005033
• ID: 01212726
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 326 g
• Dimensions: 140 × 216 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. September 2012

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