The BFI companion to crime / edited by Phil Hardy ; foreword by Richard Attenborough.

"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 Japanese yakuza...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Corporate Author:	British Film Institute
Other Authors:	Hardy, Phil, 1945-2014 (Editor), Attenborough, Richard (Author of introduction, etc.)
Other title:	Companion to crime.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
Subjects:	Detective and mystery films > History and criticism. Gangster films > History and criticism. Police films > History and criticism. Detective and mystery films > Catalogs. Gangster films > Catalogs. Police films > Catalogs. Detective and mystery films. Gangster films. Police films. Catalogs. Criticism, interpretation, etc.