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British crime film : subverting the social order

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Title Information:	subverting the social order
Author:	ForshawBarry.,
Place of Publication:	Basingstoke
Published:	Palgrave MacMillan;
Year of Publication:	2012
Description:	1 online resource (192 p.)
Series:	Crime Files
Subject:	Crime films - History and criticism. - Great Britain -
Subject:	Motion pictures - Social aspects - Great Britain. -
Subject:	PERFORMING ARTS / Reference -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137274595
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Summary:	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.
ISBN:	9781137274595electronic bk.
ISBN:	113727459Xelectronic bk.
ISBN:	0230303706
ISBN:	9780230303706
ISBN:	9781283737104
ISBN:	1283737108
Content Note:	A Social History of the Crime Film The Age of Austerity: Post-war Crime Movies Class and Crime: Social Divisions Between Left and Right: Politics and Individuals Heritage Britain Shame of a Nation: Juvenile Delinquents and Exploitation The New Violence: The Loss of Innocence Scourging the Unacceptable: Censorship Battles Metropolitan Murder: London The Regions Breaking Taboos: Sex and the Crime Film Corporate Crime: Curtains for the Maverick Mockney Menace: The New Wave The Age of Acquisition: New Crime 21st Century Hybrids The Directors: Makers of Key Crime Films APPENDIX 1: The Directors: Makers of Key Crime Films APPENDIX 2: TV Crime APPENDIX 3: Crime and Espionage APPENDIX 4: Films, TV and Books.

British crime film : subverting the social order
Forshaw, Barry.

British crime film : subverting the social order / Barry Forshaw. - Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. - 1 online resource (192 p.). - (Crime Files).
A Social History of the Crime Film.
Description based on print version record..
ISBN 9781137274595ISBN 113727459XISBN 0230303706ISBN 9780230303706ISBN 9781283737104ISBN 1283737108
Crime filmsMotion picturesPERFORMING ARTS / Reference -- History and criticism. -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- Great Britain.

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