Get Carter / Steve Chibnall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chibnall, Steve.

Series:

British film guide

The British film guide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Get Carter (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2003.

Summary:

Get Carter is now widely acknowledged to be the finest British gangster film. Starring Michael Caine as Carter, Mike Hodges' bleak film set in the gritty underworld of north-east England was released in 1971 to controversy and mixed reviews. Three decades later - by which time the crime genre had been re-invented by directors such as Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino in the US - the British Film Institute's millenial poll voted Get Carter one of the twenty best British films of all time, giving a new currency to its pessimistic vision of a doomed male within a decaying social order. Steve Chibnall relates Get Carter to other films of its genre such as Point Blank and Dirty Harry, profiles the people involved in its making and analyses the film in detail. With the co-operation of Hodges and access to rare documents including an early draft of the script, Chibnall places the film in its social context, describes its making and its critical reception. He completes the story so far by looking at the two remakes: the 1972 blaxploitation film Hit Man and the 2000 Stephen T. Kay movie of the same name set in the US, charting Get Carter's changing status over the last three decades.

Contents:

1 Carter in Context 3

2 From London Luxury to Terminal Beach 48

3 Death and Resurrection 90

Appendix Scene Breakdown and Shooting Schedule 117.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1860649106

OCLC:

51839129