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The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world. Crime film was there at the birth of cinema, and it has accompanied cinema over more than a century of history, passing from silent films to talkies, from black-and-white to color. The genre includes such classics as The Maltese Falcon, The Godfather, Gaslight, The French Connection, and Serpico, as well as more recent successes like Seven, Drive, and L.A. Confidential.
The Historical Dictionary of Crime Films covers the history of this genre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key films, directors, performers, and studios. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about crime cinema.
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The historical dictionaries present essential information on a broad range of subjects, including American and world history, art, business, cities, countries, cultures, customs, film, global conflicts, international relations, literature, music, philosophy, religion, sports, and theater. Written by experts, all contain highly informative introductory essays of the topic and detailed chronologies that, in some cases, cover vast historical time periods but still manage to heavily feature more recent events.
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Historical Dictionary of Crime Films
Geoff Mayer
The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Lanham Toronto Plymouth, UK
2012
Published by Scarecrow Press, Inc.
A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706
www.rowman.com
10 Thornbury Road, Plymouth PL6 7PP, United Kingdom
Copyright 2012 by Geoff Mayer
All rights reserved . No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.
All photos are courtesy of Photofest.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mayer, Geoff.
Historical dictionary of crime films / Geoff Mayer.
p. cm. (Historical dictionaries of literature)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8108-6769-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8108-7900-3
(ebook)
1. Crime filmsDictionaries. I. Title.
PN1995.9.C66M39 2013
791.43'655603dc23
2012017334
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
Printed in the United States of America
Editors Foreword
As anyone who watches crime films will realize, the term is not quite as simple as it at first appears, since it covers, among other things, both detective and gangster filmsdepending on whose side you focus onas well as suspense thrillers, police procedurals, and other subgenres. And, depending on who scripted the film (or more likely, who wrote the original source), you may be dealing with a rather sedate classical detective film or a rougher, grittier hard-boiled version, just to mention two variations. To this, of course, can be added more specialized genres such as the caper film and film noir. Moreoverand this is increasingly the caseyou may have trouble figuring out who the good guy is. Once, it was obviously the detective or policeman, but nowadays it could just as well be the felon, who was almost always the villain when things were simpler and perhaps there was a code to follow. This makes crime films a much richer source of entertainment and instructionyes, instruction, because many people in the audience base their views of life, who is right and who is wrong, who is the good guy and who is the bad guy, on what they see on the silver screen.
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