Crime Cinema - Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings

Informationen zum Autor Amy Sargeant teaches in the London Program for Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She was formerly Reader in Film at the University of Warwick and Lecturer in the History of Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her major publications include The Servant (BFI/Palgrave, 2011 - nominated for a BAFTSS prize); British Cinema: A Critical History (BFI, 2005) and (co-edited with Claire Monk) British Historical Cinema: History, Heritage and the Costume Film (Routledge, 2001). Klappentext Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. Core studies span from film (Catch Me If You Can, Paper Moon, House of Games) to television (Hustle), from Noir (The Grifters) to Romantic Comedy (Gambit). Frequently, the execution of the con is only finely distinguishable from the conduct of a legitimate profession and, challengingly, a mark is often shown to be culpable in his or her undoing. The best con films, it is suggested, invite re-watching and reward the viewer accordingly: who is complicit and when? How and where is the con achieved? When is the viewer party to the con? And what, if any, moral is to be drawn? Zusammenfassung Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. The best con films, it is suggested, invite re-watching and reward the viewer accordingly: who is complicit and when? Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Lone Operators 2. Two-Handers: Buddy-Buddies; Young Upstarts and Double-Dealers 3. Aesop and Brer Rabbit 4. The Big Store 5. The Long Con Bibliography

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Introduction
1. Lone Operators
2. Two-Handers: Buddy-Buddies; Young Upstarts and Double-Dealers
3. Aesop and Brer Rabbit
4. The Big Store
5. The Long Con
Bibliography

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Product details

• Authors: A Sargeant, A. Sargeant, Amy Sargeant
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781137466884
• ISBN: 978-1-137-46688-4
• No. of pages: 104
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Genre, C, Media Studies, Fiction & related items, Performing Arts, Communication, Fiction, Film History, Media and Communication, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Fiction Literature, Film and TV History, Motion pictures—History, Film history, theory & criticism, Film genres, Film: styles & genres, Genre Studies, America—Literatures, North American Literature, American Cinema and TV, Motion pictures—United States, American Film and TV, Film: styles and genres