Matthew Sorrento

The New American Crime Film

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Produktbeschreibung

The American crime film has recently enjoyed a surge in popularity and proliferation, making it the most pervasive genre in contemporary cinema. Though it now tackles current issues, it continues to reference the classic narratives and archetypes established in the great crime pictures of past decades. The titles explored in this critical survey feature a variety of themes and show that the crime film genre has fused with other genres to create fascinating hybrids. Focusing on character and plot construction, the author highlights the gangster and film noir traditions that still run strongly through recent American cinema. Among the many filmmakers analyzed within these pages are David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, David Mamet, Werner Herzog, Sam Raimi, David Cronenberg and the Coen Brothers. Stuart Gordon, director of the cult classic Re-Animator, provides the lively and incisive foreword.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780786459209
• ISBN-10: 0786459204
• Artikelnr.: 34564864

Autorenporträt

Matthew Sorrento teaches film at Rutgers University-Camden in New Jersey. He has served as editor for Identity Theory and Film Threat and is a regular contributor to many other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Foreword by Stuart Gordon     
Preface     
Introduction: Why Genre, and Why the New Crime Film Has Arrived     
PART ONE : NEW BREAK-INS
1. Say Hello to the New Heist: Spike Lee's Inside Man     
2. Paranoia Reemerging: Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton     
>Notes on a Scandal     
4. Searching the Wasteland: Debra Granik's Winter's Bone     
5. Teen Crime and Redemption: Gus Van Sant's Elephant and Paranoid
Park     
PART TWO : DARKEST REGIONS
6. Night of the Hunters: David Fincher's Zodiac and the New Serial Killer
Film     
7. Crime and Suffering: Stuart Gordon's Edmond and Stuck     
8. In a World of "Shit": Crime Motifs in Richard Linklater's Fast Food
Nation     
9. Noir and True Crime: Andrew Jarecki's All Good Things     
10. "Now It's Dark": David Lynch's Crime Nightmares     
PART THREE : THE OLDSCHOOL GOES NEW
11. The Bloody Frontier: Tommy Lee Jones's Weary Avenger     
12. New Paths to Justice: Clint Eastwood's Late-Career Crime Films     
13. Woody Allen's Match(ed) Point: The Crime of Class     
14. David Mamet: Crime, Power, and Perspective     
15. New Ganglands: The Journey to Public Enemies and American Gangster
     
PART FOUR : TRIUMPHANT GETAWAYS
16. The Coen Uncanny: From Blood Simple to No Country for Old Men     
17. From the Body Outward: The New Crimes of David Cronenberg     
18. Reclaiming the Renegade Cop: Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of
Call New Orleans     
19. Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan: A Triumph of Classicism     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index