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x, 189 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index. |
Contents |
Section I. Gangsterism and capitalism : the mob movie and after. The supplement of Coppola : primitive accumulation and the Godfather trilogy -- Hobbes after Marx, Scorsese after Coppola : on Goodfellas -- Tony Soprano and the end(s) of the mob movie -- Section II. Noir and its discontents. Marxism, cinema, and some dialectics of film noir and science fiction -- Noir, neo-noir, and the end of work : from Double indemnity to Body heat -- Section III. Empire and gender in the John Wayne western. Versions of the American imperium in three westerns by John Ford -- Post-heterosexuality : John Wayne and the construction of American masculinity. |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Crime films -- History and criticism.
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Crime films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Ford, John.
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Wilder, Billy.
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Coppola, Francis Ford.
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Scorsese.
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Crime films. (OCoLC)fst01750246
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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ISBN |
9781841507248 |
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1841507245 |
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