Transnational Crime Cinema /

Transnational Crime Cinema / / ed. by Sarah Delahousse.

Contributes a genealogical approach to debates on critical transnationalismDemonstrates that representations of crime in cinema are part of an ongoing recognition and reordering of relations of power at the levels of individual, collective, and stateOffers new angles on the work of a diverse set of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Alpert, Jennifer,
Berns, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni,
Delahousse, Sarah,
Gashi, Jonida,
Khanjani, Ramin Sadegh,
Martínez, David Rodríguez,
Odabasi, Eren,
Raj, Sony Jalarajan,
Risner, Jonathan,
Ryan, Connor,
Sedzielarz, Aleksander,
Sim, Jiaying,
Sreekumar, Rohini,
Watson, Julianna Blair,
HerausgeberIn:
Delahousse, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.) :; 48 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Transnational Crime Cinema
  • SECTION I TRANSCRIPTION
  • 1. Illuminating the Black Film: The Weimar Origins of the Argentine Policial, the Curious Case of ‘El Metteur’ James Bauer and Crime as Transnational Signifier
  • 2. Retracing Mafia Locality
  • 3. Funhouse Noir: Escapist Expressionism in Samuel Khachikian’s Delirium
  • SECTION II TRANSGRESSION
  • Part I On the Boundaries of Nation and Ideology: Criminal Heroes at the Discursive Limits of Genre, Gender and the Body
  • 4. Crime without Borders: Marginality and Transnational Power in Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète
  • 5. Three Crime Films by Jia Zhangke: A Transnational Genealogy of Social and Personal Turmoil
  • 6. Tit for Tat: Avenging Women and Self-fashioning Femininity in Malayalam Cinema
  • Part II Modes of Transgression vis-à-vis State Repression and Violence
  • 7. Communist Noir: The Hunt for Hidden Traitors, Saboteurs, Spies, Revisionists and Deviationists in Albania’s Revolutionary Vigilance Films of the 1970s and 1980s
  • 8. The Case of the Spanish Gialli: Crime Fiction and the Openness of Spain in the 1970s
  • 9. The Short Arm of the Law: The Post-dictatorship Crime Film as a Barometer for Justice in Contemporary Argentina
  • SECTION III TRANSVALUATION
  • 10. Franchising the Female Hero: Translating the New Woman in Victorin Jasset’s Protéa (1913), France’s First Female Spy Film
  • 11. Shirkers (2018) Lost and Found? Tracing Transsensorial Trauma in a True-crime Road Movie
  • 12. Gated Crimes: Neoliberal Spaces and the Pleasures of Paranoia in Las viudas de los jueves (2009) and Betibú (2014)
  • 13. Ensemble of Experts: Relentless as ‘Nigerian Noir’
  • Postscript Desires for Transit and Mobile Genealogies of Popular Cinema
  • INDEX

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