160 Pages
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Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
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Crime films have, since the earliest days of cinema, been popular with audiences, industry and critics alike and encompassed a diverse range of subjects, styles and themes. The genre provides a range of pleasures for the spectator, from taking on the role of the detective in the pursuit of clues in the ‘whodunit’, to the more illicit thrills of identification with an anti hero. In the many... Read more
1. The Development of the Genre: Introduction and Context 2. The Appeal of Violence 3. Narrative Structure and Narration in the Crime Film: the Function of the Investigation 4. Crime and Society: Ideology and Genre Filmography Bibliography
Biography
Sarah Casey Benyahia is Head of Film Studies at Colchester Sixth Form College. She is the author of Teaching Contemporary British Cinema (2005) and co author of AS and A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction (Routledge, 2008 and 2009).
