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Film genre reader IV

Film genre reader IV
0 Type: Book

"Newly revised and expanded nearly a decade after the third edition, Film Genre Reader is the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movie…

Mafia movies

Mafia movies: a reader

by Renga, Dana

fromToronto Italian studies

0 Type: Book

Rico 'Little Caesar' Bandello, Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are just some of the onscreen mafia figures that have fascinated audiences since cinema's inception. Portrayals of the Italian and Italian-American mafia, though, have differed markedly over time and across multip…

Mafia movies

Mafia movies: a reader

by Renga, Dana

fromToronto Italian studies

0 Type: Book

"Rico 'Little Caesar' Bandello, Al Capone, Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are among the many real and fictional characters that have fascinated film and television audiences since the beginning of motion pictures. This collection of essays looks at mafia movies over time and…

Mafia movies

Mafia movies: a reader

by Renga, Dana

fromToronto Italian studies

0 Type: Book

"Rico 'Little Caesar' Bandello, Al Capone, Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are among the many real and fictional characters that have fascinated film and television audiences since the beginning of motion pictures. This collection of essays looks at mafia movies over time and…

British Crime Cinema

British Crime Cinema

by Murphy, Robert, Chibnall, Steve

fromBritish popular cinema

0 Type: Book

This is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading writers on British popular film, this book includes interviews with key directors Mike Hodges (Get Carter) and Donald Cammel (Performance). It d…

British crime cinema

British crime cinema

by Murphy, Robert, Chibnall, Steve

0 Type: Book

British Crime Cinema follows the progress of the crime film from its first flourishing during the black market Britain of the 1940s, through the 50s classics, to the resurgence of the gangster cult movie in the late sixties, & current incarnations.

The BFI companion to crime

by British Film Institute, Attenborough, Richard

0 Type: Book

"A complete and detailed guide to crime on film: prison dramas, film noir, heist movies, juvenile delinquents, serial killers, bank robbers, and many other subgenres and motifs. The historical and social background to movie crime is covered by articles on the FBI, the Mafia, the…