The Introspective Realist Crime Film
This book explores the formal and thematic conventions of crime film, the contexts in which these have flourished and their links with the social issues of a globalized world. The crime film has traditionally been identified with suspense, a heterogeneous
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THE
INTROSPECTIVE
REALIST CRIME FILM
The Introspective Realist Crime Film
Luis M. García-Mainar
The Introspective Realist Crime Film
Luis M. García-Mainar Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Zaragoza Zaragoza, Spain
ISBN 978-1-137-49652-2 ISBN 978-1-137-49653-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-49653-9
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Our daughter Elia was born while I was writing this book: she brought us sleepless nights but also renewed our hopes for the future. Para Elia
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Some of the ideas were originally rehearsed in essays for European Journal of American Studies, Generic Attractions: New Essays on Film Genre Criticism, CineAction, Journal of Film and Video and Hispanic Research Journal. I am grateful to the editors of those publications for their wise suggestions. Several libraries provided assistance. I am particularly indebted to Jenny Romero, Linda Harris Mehr and the staff at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their help during the summer of 2011. Research was funded by project FFI201340769-P of the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, with the support of FEDER (European Union). Among my colleagues at the Universidad de Zaragoza, Celestino Deleyto and the work on Film Studies that he has led for years have been a strong intellectual influence. I am also particularly grateful to the members of my research group, who had to face unusual difficulties in the past few years, overcame them with grace and in the process showed me the
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