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The American City in Crime Films

Andrew J. Baranauskas

Author : Andrew J. Baranauskas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040052136

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Analyzing crime movies set in Detroit, Miami, Boston, Las Vegas, and the fictional Gotham City, this book examines the role that American cities play as characters in crime films. Furthering our awareness of how popular media shapes public understanding of crime and justice in American cities, this book contributes to scholarship in popular criminology by providing insight into the development of criminological theory in cinematic representations of crime and urban space. Each chapter focuses on a different city, starting with an overview of the social, economic, and political history of the city and proceeding to discuss the cinematic depiction of crime and justice in the city. At the heart of each chapter is a discussion of themes that are common across films set in each city. For each theme, the book makes connections to the criminological theory discussed in that chapter and concludes by focusing on real-world implications that stem from the social construction of urban crime in crime films. Bridging the gap between criminology and media studies, The American City in Crime Films will appeal to students of criminology and media studies, and urban sociology/criminology.

The American City in Crime Films

Andrew J. Baranauskas

Author : Andrew J. Baranauskas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2025
Category : Cities and towns in motion pictures
ISBN : 1032590858

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"Analysing crime movies set in Detroit, Miami, Boston, Las Vegas, and Gotham City, this book examines the role that American cities play as characters in crime films. Furthering our awareness of how popular media shapes public understanding of crime and justice in American cities, this book contributes to scholarship in popular criminology by providing insight into the development of criminological theory in cinematic representations of crime and urban space. Each chapter focuses on a different city, starting with an overview of the social, economic, and political history of the city and proceeding to discuss the cinematic depiction of crime and justice in the city. At the heart of each chapter is a discussion of themes that are common across films set in each city. For each theme, the book makes connections to the criminological theory discussed in that chapter and concludes by focusing on real-world implications that stem from the social construction of urban crime in crime films. Bridging the gap between criminology and media studies, The American City in Crime Films will appeal to students of criminology and media studies, and urban sociology/criminology"--

Welcome to Fear City

Nathan Holmes

Author : Nathan Holmes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438471211

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Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public lifein stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute, The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture. Rejecting the easy abstractions and postmodern playfulness of noir and neo-noir criticism, Holmes places 1970s crime films, as he says, in relation to the urban context that was their location, setting, and subject. He does this brilliantly, convincingly, and uniquely. David Desser, former editor, Cinema Journal

Crime Films

Thomas Leitch

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521646715

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Crime Films by Thomas Leitch Pdf

This book surveys the entire range of crime films, including important subgenres such as the gangster film, the private eye film, film noir, as well as the victim film, the erotic thriller, and the crime comedy. Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger. Analyzing how each of the subgenres establishes oppositions among its ritual antagonists, he shows how the distinctions among them become blurred throughout the course of the century. This blurring, Leitch maintains, reflects and fosters a deep social ambivalence towards crime and criminals, while the criminal, victim and avenger characters effectively map the shifting relations between subgenres, such as the erotic thriller and the police film, within the larger genre of crime film that informs them all.

The American City in the Cinema

James A. Clapp

Author : James A. Clapp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351486064

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The American city and the American movie industry grew up together in the early decades of the twentieth century, making film an ideal medium through which to better understand urban life. Exploiting the increasing popularity of large metropolitan cities and urban lifestyle, movies chronicled the city and the stories it generated. In this volume, urbanist James A. Clapp explores the reciprocal relationship between the city and the cinema within the dimensions of time and space.A variety of themes and actualizations have been repeated throughout the history of the cinema, including the roles of immigrants, women, small towns, family farms, and suburbia; and urban childhoods, family values, violent crime, politics, and dystopic futures. Clapp examines the different ways in which the city has been characterized as well as how it has been portrayed as a character itself.Some of the films discussed include Metropolis, King Kong, West Side Story, It's a Wonderful Life, American Beauty, Rebel without a Cause, American Graffiti, Blade Runner, Gangs of New York, The Untouchables, LA Confidential, Sunrise, Crash, American History X, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Deer Hunter, and many more. This work will be enjoyed by urban specialists, moviegoers, and those interested in American, cultural, and film studies.

The City in American Cinema

Johan Andersson,Lawrence Webb

Author : Johan Andersson,Lawrence Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350115637

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The City in American Cinema by Johan Andersson,Lawrence Webb Pdf

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s? And what role have films and film industries played in shaping and mediating the “postindustrial” city? This collection argues that cinema and cities have become increasingly intertwined in the era of neoliberalism, urban branding, and accelerated gentrification. Examining a wide range of films from Hollywood blockbusters to indie cinema, it considers the complex, evolving relationship between moving image cultures and the spaces, policies, and politics of US cities from New York, Los Angeles, and Boston to Detroit, Oakland, and Baltimore. The contributors address questions of narrative, genre, and style alongside the urban contexts of production, exhibition, and reception, discussing films including The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Cruising (1980), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), King of New York (1990), Inception (2010), Frances Ha (2012), Fruitvale Station (2013), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Doctor Strange (2016).

The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films

Salvador Jimenez Murguía

Author : Salvador Jimenez Murguía
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442269064

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The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films by Salvador Jimenez Murguía Pdf

From D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for more than a century. Whether subtle or blatant, racially biased images and narratives erase minorities, perpetuate stereotypes, and keep alive practices of discrimination and marginalization. Even in the 21st century, the American film industry is not “color blind,” evidenced by films such as Babel (2006), A Better Life, (2011), and 12 Years a Slave (2013). The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film documents one facet of racism in the film industry, wherein historically underrepresented peoples are misrepresented—through a lack of roles for actors of color, stereotyping, negative associations, and an absence of rich, nuanced characters. Offering insights and analysis from over seventy scholars, critics, and activists, the volume highlights issues such as: Hollywood’s diversity crisis White Savior films Magic Negro tropes The disconnect between screen images and lived realities of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asians A companion to the ever-growing field of race studies, this volume opens up a critical dialogue on an always timely issue. The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film will appeal to scholars of cinema, race and ethnicity studies, and cultural history.

Historical Dictionary of Crime Films

Geoff Mayer

Author : Geoff Mayer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810867697

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Historical Dictionary of Crime Films by Geoff Mayer Pdf

The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world. Crime film was there at the birth of cinema, and it has accompanied cinema over more than a century of history, passing from silent films to talkies, from black-and-white to color. The genre includes such classics as The Maltese Falcon, The Godfather, Gaslight, The French Connection, and Serpico, as well as more recent successes like Seven, Drive, and L.A. Confidential. The Historical Dictionary of Crime Films covers the history of this genre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key films, directors, performers, and studios. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about crime cinema. -- from Amazon.com.

Fear City Cinema

Roger A. Salerno

Author : Roger A. Salerno
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476680903

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Fear City Cinema by Roger A. Salerno Pdf

This book studies a grouping of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by rampant criminality, social distress and physical decay. "Fear City" is a term the NYPD used to label New York as a frightening environment, incapable of securing the safety of its residents. This book not only deals with the social problems evident in New York during this period, but also provides a study of how independent filmmakers were able to capture unsettling urban imagery, capitalizing on feelings of paranoia and dread. The author explores how the tone of these films reflects upon the anti-urbanism that led to the War on Crime, the mass exodus of working-class people from the city and mass incarceration of young Black men.

Rock around the Clock

Yannis Tzioumakis,Siân Lincoln

Author : Yannis Tzioumakis,Siân Lincoln
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134826650

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Rock around the Clock by Yannis Tzioumakis,Siân Lincoln Pdf

Examining one of the earliest films made specifically for young audiences in US cinema, Rock around the Clock (1956), this book explores the exploitation production company that made the film and the ways it represented young people, especially in terms of their association with rock ’n’ roll music and culture. Providing new avenues of approaching the film, the book looks at how Rock around the Clock has attracted significant scholarly attention, despite its origins as a low-budget production made by master exploitation filmmaker Sam Katzman. It challenges accounts that see the film’s young people as juvenile delinquents, using instead the label ‘cultural rebels’ as a signifier of youth’s ability to resurrect a moribund music industry and rejuvenate a stale youth culture. This book also questions the nature of the label ‘exploitation’ as applied to the film by examining Columbia Pictures’ role as a resource provider for Katzman’s film, comparing Rock around the Clock to contemporaneous films with a youth focus that were produced in different industrial contexts and investigating its relationship to adaptation by asking whether the film is an example of a ‘postliterary’ adaptation. Rich on archival research and industrial and textual analysis, Rock around the Clock will interest both film studies and youth cultures scholars.

Framing Law and Crime

Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart,Michael Hviid Jacobsen,Cecil Greek

Author : Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart,Michael Hviid Jacobsen,Cecil Greek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781611477061

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This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television’s most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film, Framing Law and Crime offers a critical survey of a variety of genres and media, integrating descriptions of technique with critical analysis, and incorporating historical and socio-political critique. The first set of essays brings together accounts of the history of the Law and Cinema Movement; the groundbreaking genre of “post-apocalyptic fiction;” and the policy-setting genesis of a Canadian documentary. The second section of the book turns to the examination of a range of international or global films, with an eye to assessing the strengths, frailties, and possible functions of law, as depicted in fictional cinema. After an international focus in the second section, the third section focuses on law and crime in American film and television, inclusive of both fictional and documentary modes of narration. This section’s expansion beyond film narratives to include television series attempts to broaden the scope of the edited collection, in terms of media discussed; it is also a nod to how the big screen, although still a dominant force in American popular culture, now has to compete, to some extent, with the small screen, for influence over the collective American popular cultural imaginary. The fourth section, titled brings together various chapters that attempt to instantiate how a “Gothic Criminology” could be useful, as an interpretative framework in analyzing depictions of law and crime in film and television. The fifth and final section covers issues of pedagogy, epistemology, and ethics in relation to moving images of law and crime. Merging wide-ranging analyses with nuanced scholarly interpretations, Framing Law and Crime examines key concepts and showcases original research reflecting the latest interdisciplinary trends in the scholarship of the moving image. It addresses, not only scholars, but also fans, and will heighten the appreciation of connoisseurs and newcomers to these topics alike.

Making a Promised Land

Paula J. Massood

Author : Paula J. Massood
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813555898

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Making a Promised Land examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. Paula J. Massood analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which the “Mecca of the New Negro” became a battleground in the struggle to define American politics, aesthetics, and citizenship. Visual media were first used as tools for uplift and education. With Harlem’s downturn in fortunes through the 1930s, narratives of black urban criminality became common in sociological tracts, photojournalism, and film. These narratives were particularly embodied in the gangster film, which was adapted to include stories of achievement, economic success, and, later in the century, a nostalgic return to the past. Among the films discussed are Fights of Nations (1907), Dark Manhattan (1937), The Cool World (1963), Black Caesar (1974), Malcolm X (1992), and American Gangster (2007). Massood asserts that the history of photography and film in Harlem provides the keys to understanding the neighborhood’s symbolic resonance in African American and American life, especially in light of recent urban redevelopment that has redefined many of its physical and demographic contours.

Film – An International Bibliography

Malte Hagener,Michael Töteberg

Author : Malte Hagener,Michael Töteberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783476036865

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Film – An International Bibliography by Malte Hagener,Michael Töteberg Pdf

Kommentierte Bibliografie. Sie gibt Wissenschaftlern, Studierenden und Journalisten zuverlässig Auskunft über rund 6000 internationale Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Film und Medien. Die vorgestellten Rubriken reichen von Nachschlagewerk über Filmgeschichte bis hin zu Fernsehen, Video, Multimedia.

Blackout

Sheri Chinen Biesen

Author : Sheri Chinen Biesen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0801882184

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Blackout by Sheri Chinen Biesen Pdf

Sheri Chinen Biesen challenges conventional thinking on the origins of film noir and finds the genre's roots in the political, social and historical conditions of Hollywood during the Second World War.

Dreams & Dead Ends

Jack Shadoian

Author : Jack Shadoian
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0195142926

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Table of contents

The American City In Crime Films

The American City in Crime Films by Andrew J. Baranauskas Pdf

The American City in Crime Films by Andrew J. Baranauskas Pdf

Welcome to Fear City by Nathan Holmes Pdf

Crime Films by Thomas Leitch Pdf

The American City in the Cinema by James A. Clapp Pdf

The City in American Cinema by Johan Andersson,Lawrence Webb Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films by Salvador Jimenez Murguía Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Crime Films by Geoff Mayer Pdf

Fear City Cinema by Roger A. Salerno Pdf

Rock around the Clock by Yannis Tzioumakis,Siân Lincoln Pdf

Framing Law and Crime by Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart,Michael Hviid Jacobsen,Cecil Greek Pdf

Making a Promised Land by Paula J. Massood Pdf

Film – An International Bibliography by Malte Hagener,Michael Töteberg Pdf

Blackout by Sheri Chinen Biesen Pdf

Dreams & Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian Pdf

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