The heist film : stealing with style / Daryl Lee.
A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller's development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into sleek capers in the 1960s (...
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Wallflower/Columbia University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Short cuts (London, England)
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Heist as Genre; 1. Origins: The Noir Heist; 2. Foundations: The Noir Heist and its Satire as Aesthetic Parables; 3. Conventions: The Heist Adapts its Message; 4. Returns: Perpetuating the Myth of Originality in the Remake; Select Filmography; Select Bibliography; Index.