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The Heist Film : Stealing with Style / Daryl Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Daryl, author.
- Series:
- Short cuts (London, England)
- Short Cuts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime films--History and criticism.
- Crime films.
- Caper films--History and criticism.
- Caper films.
- Detective and mystery films--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Edition:
- Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller's development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into sleek capers in the 1960's (Ocean's Eleven, Gambit, How to Steal a Million) and splashing across screens in the 2000's in remake after remake (The Thomas Crown Affair, The Italian Job, The Good Thief). Built around a series of case studies (Rififi, Bob le Flambeur, The Killing, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Getaway, the Ocean's trilogy), this volume explores why directors of such varied backgrounds, from studio regulars (Siodmak, Crichton, Siegel, Walsh and Wise) to independents (Anderson, Fuller, Kubrick, Ritchie and Soderbergh), are so drawn to this popular genre.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Introduction: The Heist as Genre
- 1. Origins: The Noir Heist
- 2. Foundations: The Noir Heist and its Satire as Aesthetic Parables
- 3. Conventions: The Heist Adapts its Message
- 4. Returns: Perpetuating the Myth of Originality in the Remake
- Select Filmography
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780231850582
- 0231850581
- OCLC:
- 877768899
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