British crime film : subverting the social order / Barry Forshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forshaw, Barry.

Series:

Crime files series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime films--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Crime films.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

British Crime Film is a celebratory and comprehensive social history of this idiosyncratic genre. Barry Forshaw focuses on the strategies used in the crime genre to tackle more radical themes than those addressed in mainstream film, exploring such subjects as the treatment of sex and violence, corporate crime and the maverick criminal. Covering all the major - and most minor -British crime films up to and including the twenty-first century, Forshaw places the films including British urban crime movies and the wave of new crime/horror hybrids such as Kill List -and predicts what the future holds for the genre. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Social History of the Crime Film 1

2 The Age of Austerity: Post-War Crime Films 16

3 Class and Crime: Social Divisions 24

4 Between Left and Right: Politics and Individuals 42

5 Heritage Britain 53

6 Shame of a Nation: Juvenile Delinquents and Exploitation 63

7 The New Violence: The Loss of Innocence 72

8 Scourging the Unacceptable: Censorship Battles 84

9 Metropolitan Murder: London 97

10 The Regions 111

11 Breaking Taboos: Sex and the Crime Film 123

12 Corporate Crime: Curtains for the Maverick 135

13 Mockney Menace: The New Wave 148

14 The Age of Acquisition: New Crime 157

15 Twenty-First-Century Hybrids 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1137005033

9781137005038

OCLC:

810122402