Arthouse Crime Scenes - King, Geoff
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"This book examines a range of work that mixes two dimensions often situated at opposite ends of the cultural spectrum: contemporary arthouse cinema and the crime genre. While the 'art' of arthouse cinema implies qualities like originality, seriousness and significance, genre is often taken to suggest something more formulaic, repeated - and of lower cultural standing. The films examined straddle such dichotomies to embrace a spectrum ranging from oblique or social-realist films that touch on issues of crime to others that work firmly within crime-generic parameters while remaining distinctly different from mainstream-commercial material"--…mehr

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"This book examines a range of work that mixes two dimensions often situated at opposite ends of the cultural spectrum: contemporary arthouse cinema and the crime genre. While the 'art' of arthouse cinema implies qualities like originality, seriousness and significance, genre is often taken to suggest something more formulaic, repeated - and of lower cultural standing. The films examined straddle such dichotomies to embrace a spectrum ranging from oblique or social-realist films that touch on issues of crime to others that work firmly within crime-generic parameters while remaining distinctly different from mainstream-commercial material"--
Autorenporträt
Geoff King is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at Brunel University London, UK, and author of numerous books, including The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film (Bloomsbury, 2021), Positioning Art Cinema: Film and Cultural Value (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Quality Hollywood: Markers of Distinction in Contemporary Studio Film (Bloomsbury, 2015)