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Paperback Crime Films (Genres in American Cinema) Book

ISBN: 0521646715

ISBN13: 9780521646710

Crime Films (Genres in American Cinema)

(Part of the Genres in American Cinema Series)

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Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of three figures common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger. He shows how the distinctions among them become blurred throughout the course of the century, reflecting and fostering a deep social ambivalence towards crime and criminals. The criminal, victim and avenger characters effectively map the shifting relations...

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