Transnational Crime Cinema / edited by Sarah Delahousse and Aleksander Sedzielarz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delahousse, Sarah, editor.

Sedzielarz, Aleksander, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime in motion pictures.

Motion pictures and transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Framed by approaches in critical transnationalism, this volume examines crime as a cinematic mode moving within, between, and across national cinemas to provide rigorous accounts of the political, economic, and historical processes entangled in the production, circulation, and reception of crime films most frequently treated through the lens of genre.<br><br>Filmic narratives of crime open a porous space of public discourse in which filmmakers and audiences project and reimagine relations of power. <i>Transnational Crime Cinema</i> studies the production and reception of films from Europe, Africa, East and South Asia, and South America which present crime as a discursive site where the terms of the nation and cinema gain new definition.<br><br>Considered transnationally, crime cinema is a self-reflexive modality through which cinema reflects upon cinema's own discursivity while audiences negotiate ideologies and imaginaries of nation against disruptive transnational economic and political pressures.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Transnational Crime Cinema

SECTION I TRANSCRIPTION

1. Illuminating the Black Film: The Weimar Origins of the Argentine Policial, the Curious Case of ‘El Metteur’ James Bauer and Crime as Transnational Signifier

2. Retracing Mafia Locality

3. Funhouse Noir: Escapist Expressionism in Samuel Khachikian’s Delirium

SECTION II TRANSGRESSION

Part I On the Boundaries of Nation and Ideology: Criminal Heroes at the Discursive Limits of Genre, Gender and the Body

4. Crime without Borders: Marginality and Transnational Power in Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète

5. Three Crime Films by Jia Zhangke: A Transnational Genealogy of Social and Personal Turmoil

6. Tit for Tat: Avenging Women and Self-fashioning Femininity in Malayalam Cinema

Part II Modes of Transgression vis-à-vis State Repression and Violence

7. Communist Noir: The Hunt for Hidden Traitors, Saboteurs, Spies, Revisionists and Deviationists in Albania’s Revolutionary Vigilance Films of the 1970s and 1980s

8. The Case of the Spanish Gialli: Crime Fiction and the Openness of Spain in the 1970s

9. The Short Arm of the Law: The Post-dictatorship Crime Film as a Barometer for Justice in Contemporary Argentina

SECTION III TRANSVALUATION

10. Franchising the Female Hero: Translating the New Woman in Victorin Jasset’s Protéa (1913), France’s First Female Spy Film

11. Shirkers (2018) Lost and Found? Tracing Transsensorial Trauma in a True-crime Road Movie

12. Gated Crimes: Neoliberal Spaces and the Pleasures of Paranoia in Las viudas de los jueves (2009) and Betibú (2014)

13. Ensemble of Experts: Relentless as ‘Nigerian Noir’

Postscript Desires for Transit and Mobile Genealogies of Popular Cinema

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-3995-0570-X

1-3995-0569-6

OCLC:

1356957902