The Best Laid Plans : Interrogating the Heist Film.
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The heist -- a carefully organized robbery of a financial institution or other lucrative business -- has been a persistent and popular mainstay of the crime film. The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film asks the question: why has the heist film proved so appealing to audiences over many years and in diverse cultural contexts? The twelve essays in this volume, edited by Jim Leach and Jeannette Sloniowski, explore the significance of the heist film in different national cinemas, as well as its aesthetic principles and ideological issues such as representation of gender, race, and class. The essays are organized in three parts dealing with the heist film's international presence, the subgenre's social and cultural implications, and some theoretical ways of approaching it. For example, contributor Tim Palmer challenges traditional notions of French film history that emphasize critically acclaimed art films by pointing to the rich achievements of critically defamed and neglected, but extremely popular, crime films; Gaylyn Studlar surveys heist films in light of feminist theories that illuminate stereotypical characterizations of both men and women in the heist; and Hamilton Carroll compares James Marsh's documentary Man on a Wire -- which draws on heist conventions to depict Philippe Petit's unauthorized tightrope walk in 1974 between the two towers of the World Trade Center -- to Spike Lee's New York set heist film Inside Man. The Best Laid Plans includes an accessible group of essays that will meet the needs of students and scholars in film and media studies by offering new insights into an important and neglected area in genre criticism.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Leach, J., & Sloniowski, J. (2017). The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film . Wayne State University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Leach, Jim and Jeannette Sloniowski. 2017. The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film. Wayne State University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Leach, Jim and Jeannette Sloniowski. The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film Wayne State University Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Leach, Jim,, and Jeannette Sloniowski. The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film Wayne State University Press, 2017.
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