INDEX
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Affleck, Ben 2, 97
Affleck, Casey 5
Aldrich, Robert 3
Allen, Woody 5
Alpi, Deborah 27–9
Altman, Rick 4–7, 11, 13, 86, 89
Anderson, Wes 95
Andrew, Dudley 17, 37
Andrew, Geoff 106
Augé, Marc 98–9
Auric, Georges 47, 49, 68
auteurism 40–1, 73, 75–6, 89, 101, 112–15
 
Baker, Aaron 8, 106, 108, 110–11
Balcon, Michael 62–4, 68
Barsam, Richard 67
Baudrillard, Jean 99
Becker, Jacques 18, 38
Benjamin, Walter 17–18, 102
Bergfelder, Tim 37
Berthomé, Jean–Pierre 45
big caper 1–13, 16–7, 73, 89–90
Bondanella, Peter 69–70
Bonnot, Monique 56
Borde, Raymond 15, 21, 93
Bordwell, David 39, 93, 111
Boyle, Danny 3
Brosnan, Pierce 1
Brunetta, Gian Piero 69
Burnett, W. R. 12, 21–3, 31, 34–5, 78
 
Caan, Scott 5,
Caine, Michael 1, 85, 96
caper vs heist 2–4
Celli, Carlo 69–70
Champion, Gower 74
Chaumeton, Etienne 15, 21, 93
Cimino, Michael 3, 90
Civil Rights heist film 74–8
Clair, René 67
Clarens, Carlos 23, 25, 30, 90
Clarke, T. E. B. 64–5
Clooney, George 1, 79, 106
Coen, Ethan and Joel 1
Collinson, Peter 1, 74
Comolli, Jean–Luc 40
copy vs. original 99–105
cosmopolitan caper 74, 83–6
cosmopolitan film 83–4
Cottino-Jones, Marga 69–70
Crichton, Charles 14, 39, 62–3, 67–8
criminal as artist 10, 21, 61, 104
 
Damon, Matt 1
Dassin, Jules 5, 13, 15, 21, 36, 39, 41–9, 55, 58, 63, 69, 75, 85, 115
Dearden, Basil 3, 19, 73
Decaë, Henri 56
De Palma, Brian 3
Deray, Jacques 75–6
Dimendberg, Edward 29–30, 35–6
Donaldson, Roger 94–5
Duchesne, Roger 56–8
Dunaway, Faye 1
 
Ealing Studios 61–2
 
Feuillade, Louis 17
film noir 2–3, 8, 12–13, 15, 23, 29–30, 35–41, 59, 61, 74, 93
film policier 55
fine art 36, 63, 65, 105, 107, 109
Fleischer, Richard 38
Flemyng, Gordon 78
France 17, 41–2, 65–6, 74–6, 96, 107
Fuller, Samuel 38, 76–7
 
gambling 18, 60, 78–80
Garcia, Andy 1, 79, 109
genre 2–15, 19–21, 23, 26, 29, 35–40, 45, 48, 53, 55, 61–2, 68–9, 72–7, 89–91, 93–7, 100, 106, 110–14; comedy 12, 55, 61–71, 79, 86, 100, 105; Ealing comedy 62–71; gangster 50; Hollywood 11, 29; romantic comedy 13; science fiction comedy 67; sub–genre 6, 11, 38, 41, 61, 70, 72; western 11, 19, 22, 83, 87, 91; gentleman thief film 19–21, 58, 85
Giovanni, José 75
Girard, Bernard 86
Glazer, Jonathan 95
Gould, Elliot 1, 79
Grant, Barry Keith 9
Gray, F. Gary 1, 5, 94, 100–1, 104–5
Guillermin, John 72
Gunning, Tom 17–8
 
Hall, Peter 85
Hall, Sara 19
Hamilton, Guy 3
Hanks, Tom 1
Hansen, Miriam 29, 37
Harper, Sue 62–3, 68
Hathaway, Henry 73, 75
Hayden, Sterling 5, 31, 50, 54
Hayes, Graeme 47–8, 75
heist film, definition of 2–11
Hellinger, Mark 21–3, 34
high vs. mass/low culture 29, 41, 80, 106–10
Hill, George Roy 3
Hitchcock, Alfred 3
Hollywood vs. independent film 22–3, 40–1, 49, 106, 110, 112
Hughes, Albert and Allen 3, 53, 94
Huston, John 5, 13, 15, 21–3, 29–39, 49, 51, 54, 60, 68
Hutton, Brian G. 3
 
imagination 9, 36, 41, 59, 64, 92, 97–9, 102, 115
Isasi, Antonio 79, 82–3
 
Jaffe, Sam 5
Jameson, Fredric 80
Jarmusch, Jim 92, 94, 111
Jewison, Norman 1, 74
Jordan, Neil 1
 
Kaes, Anton 18
Kaminsky, Stuart 3–11, 13, 16, 18–20, 33–5, 41, 73, 89–90
Karlson, Phil 38
Kavanagh, Thomas 60–1
Kennedy, Burt 3
Khouri, Callie 5
King, Geoff 106
Kjellin, Alf 85
Krutnik, Frank 19
Kubrick, Stanley 9, 13, 39, 41, 49–55, 63, 97
 
Lacourbe, Roland 1
Lang, Fritz 18–9, 98
Las Vegas heist 74, 78–83
Le Breton, Auguste 42–5, 55–6
Lee, Spike 2, 96–7
Leitch, Thomas 22, 100
Levinson, Barry 96
Lumet, Sidney 90
 
Mackendrick, Alexander 1, 38, 62, 68
Mamet, David 1, 95
Mann, Michael 3, 5
Marsh, James 2
Mason, Fran 6, 8, 38
mass culture 29, 80
McArthur, Colin 58–9
McFarlane, Brian 64
McQueen, Steve 1, 87
McTiernan, John 1, 94
Melville, Jean-Pierre 1, 14, 39, 41, 55–63, 75–6
Milestone, Lewis 1, 14, 19, 39, 79–80, 83
modernism 27–30, 35–7, 39, 40–3, 45, 49–52, 57–8, 66–72, 80, 86, 92, 100, 107–10, 114
money 10, 21, 42–3, 51, 54, 61, 75, 80, 84, 87, 90, 96–7, 101, 104, 108–14
Monicelli, Mario 61, 68–72, 90
Montaldo, Giuliano 84
Munby, Jonathan 23–4
Musser, Charles 16
 
Naremore, James 33–4, 40–1, 50, 52
Neale, Steve 11, 19
Neame, Ronald 85
Neue Sachlichkeit; see New Objectivity
Newman, Kim 3, 5–7, 12, 19–20, 61, 85, 90
New Objectivity 27–30
Nogueira, Rui 55–6
noir heist film 15–37, 38–71, 73–4, 76, 85, 91, 95, 99, 114
Nolan, Christopher 2–3, 97, 113
Norton, Edward 9, 96, 101
 
Oz, Frank 1, 96
 
Peckinpah, Sam 3, 87–90
Petrucci, Antonio 63–4
Philips, Gene 55
Pitt, Brad 1, 79
Pollack, Barry 78
Porfirio, Robert 24
Porter, Edwin S. 16
Porter, Vincent 9, 62–3, 68
Prince, Stephen 53, 87
process film 7, 51–2
Production Code (PCA) 33, 53, 74, 86
Pulleine, Tim 62–3, 68, 86
 
Ritchie, Guy 95
Roberts, Julia 1, 109–10
Rolls, Allistair 39, 41–5,
Rosow, Eugene 11, 16, 19, 20, 78
Russell, David O. 3
Russo, Rene 1
 
Schatz, Thomas 19, 72–3
Scheerer, Robert 74, 89
Schwartz, Vanessa 83–4, 86
self-reflexivity 20, 41, 56, 55, 81, 70, 72
Servais, Jean 43, 82
Shadoian, Jack 24–6, 29–30, 36–7
Shear, Barry 78
Singer, Bryan 93–5
Siodmak, Robert 12–15, 21–32, 37, 49, 67–8, 99, 106
Slocombe, Douglas 68
Smith, Murray 48, 59, 108
social message 4, 8, 10, 42, 62, 72–3, 114
Soderbergh, Steven 1, 5, 8, 79, 93–5, 100–1, 105–13
speculation 18, 75
Stam, Robert 72
Sutherland, Donald 5, 101
 
Tarantino, Quentin 93–4
Taylor, Don 19, 85
Taylor, Mark 23, 79
technology 48, 79, 82–4, 89, 98, 104–5
Telotte, J. P. 6, 39, 73
Temple, Michael 75
Thomas, Gerald 74
Thompson, Howard 5, 20, 83, 107
Thompson, Kirsten Moana 6
Throsby, David 108
transatlanticism 40–1
Trauner, Alexandre 45
Truffaut, François 40, 48, 56–8, 115
 
utopia/utopianism 8, 29, 30–1, 68, 78, 82, 88, 97, 99
 
Venturi, Robert 79–82
Verevis, Constantine 100–1
vernacular modernism 29, 37, 71, 80
Verneuil, Henri 3, 75
Vincendeau, Ginette 41–2, 56, 58, 75
violence 16, 38–9, 42–3, 52, 64, 86–91
 
Wahlberg, Mark 5, 101
Walker, Deborah 39, 41–3, 45
Walker, Michael 24, 26
Walsh, Raoul 12, 21–2, 30
Webber, Andrew 28
White, Lionel 49, 111
widescreen format 38–9, 77
Wilson, Ron 11, 93
Winner, Michael 86
Wise, Robert 72, 77–8
Witt, Michael 75
Wyler, William 19, 72, 85
 
Yates, Peter 72