British Crime Cinema by Chibnall, Steve -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page British Crime Cinema British Popular Cinema series Title Page Copyright Page Illustrations

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Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Parole overdue: Releasing the British crime film into the critical community

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2 The censors and British gangland, 1913–1990

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3 Spin a dark web

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4 Outrage: No Orchids For Miss Blandish

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Men Women Money—imaginary solutions and dominant resolutions Men, women and money Conclusion—treading softly and dancing with crime Note Bibliography

6 The higher heel: Women and the post-war British crime film

The masquerade of feminine crime Down at heel The higher heel The highest heel Notes Bibliography

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8 Ordinary people: ‘New Wave’ realism and the British crime film 1959–1963

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9 Performance: Interview with Donald Cammell

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10 Mike Hodges discusses Get Carter with the NFT audience, 23 September 1997

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11 A revenger’s tragedy— Get Carter

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12 Dog eat dog: The Squeeze and the Sweeney films

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13 Space in the British crime film

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14 Allegorising the nation: British gangster films of the 1980s

The gangster film as allegory Thatcherite enterprise and gangsterism The ethics of violence: The Long Good Friday Gangsters as pastiche: A Prayer for the Dying Gangsters and tradition: Mona Lisa, Empire State and Stormy Monday Conclusion Bibliography

15 From underworld to underclass: Crime and British cinema in the 1990s

Gender politics and the gangster Gender, work and crime: social change and the 1990s British cinema Shopping Shallow Grave Face Smalltime Notes Bibliography

Filmography, 1939–1997

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