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Arthouse Crime Scenes
Art Film, Genre and Crime in Contemporary World Cinema
Arthouse Crime Scenes
Art Film, Genre and Crime in Contemporary World Cinema
Description
How is crime represented in art cinema? And how can this be understood in the context of global sociopolitical and film-industrial trends? Crime might be shown or lurk only at the edges. It might be left unresolved or unexplained. Arthouse crimes can be petty and small scale or raise big questions associated with the arthouse sector: political issues, the nature of humanity, truth and knowability.
Arthouse Crime Scenes is the first book to address the relationship between art cinema and crime, contributing to the study of both categories. Case studies are provided of works by celebrated filmmakers including Lucretia Martell, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Bong Joon Ho, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Jia Zhangke, Andrey Zvyagintsez and Lee Chang-dong.
Textual analysis is combined with focus on social and industrial contexts. A recurring theme is the situation of arthouse crime films within differing manifestations of broader processes of late-modern neoliberal globalization and cultural hybridity. Approaches examined range from the oblique to social realism and other mixtures of crime and arthouse tendencies.
Table of Contents
1. Setting the Scene: Art Cinema, Genre, Crime
2. Oblique Crimes: The Headless Woman and Neighbouring Sounds
3. 'Quality' Crime and Cultural Hybridity: Memories of Murder and The Secret in Their Eyes
4. Small-time Crime, Low-key Realism: XiaoWu/Pickpocket and Police, Adjective
5. Murder, Truth and Humanity: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and The Third Murder
6. Missing, Presumed: Loveless and Burning
7. Robbery: The Robber, Revanche and Towards a Conclusion
Index
Product details
| Published | 14 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9798765108178 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 29 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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