Holmes Welcome to Fear City

Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7122-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmes, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Crime Film and the Messy City

1. Parking Garage, Apartment, Disco, Skyscraper: Alan J. Pakula’s Banal Modernity

2. Everyone Here Is a Cop: Urban Spectatorship and the Popular Culture of Policing in the Super-Cop Cycle

3. Detroit 9000 and Hollywood’s Midwest

4. Bystander Effects: Death Wish and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Conclusion: The Lure of the City

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Holmes is a New York–based scholar and teacher, with a PhD in film and media studies from the University of Chicago.