The New American Crime Film by Matthew Sorrento

McFarland Co Inc
The New American Crime Film by Matthew Sorrento
The New American Crime Film by Matthew Sorrento
Product Specifications
  • Title: The New American Crime Film by Matthew Sorrento
  • Author: Matthew Sorrento
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Film TV & radio
  • No. of pages: 222
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 229 x 152 x 11

Product Description

The American crime film has recently enjoyed a surge in popularity and proliferation making it the most pervasive genre in contemporary cinema. Though it now tackles current issues it continues to reference the classic narratives and archetypes established in the great crime pictures of past decades. The titles explored in this critical survey feature a variety of themes and show that the crime film genre has fused with other genres to create fascinating hybrids. Focusing on character and plot construction the author highlights the gangster and film noir traditions that still run strongly through recent American cinema.

Among the many filmmakers analyzed within these pages are David Lynch Gus Van Sant David Mamet Werner Herzog Sam Raimi David Cronenberg and the Coen Brothers. Stuart Gordon director of the cult classic Re-Animator provides the lively and incisive foreword.