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	Crime film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Films focused on the Mafia are a typical example of crime films.
		The film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a "courtroom drama".
		When a courtroom drama is filmed, the traditional device employed by screenwriters and directors is the frequent use of flashbacks, in which the crime and everything that led up to it is narrated and reconstructed from different angles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crime_film (778 words)

	Crime fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.
		When film director Michael Curtiz adapted Mildred Pierce for the big screen in 1945, he lived up to the cinemagoers' and the producers' expectations by adding a murder which is absent from the novel.
		Some of the crime novels generally regarded as the finest, including those which are regularly chosen by experts as belonging to the best 100 crime novels ever written (see bibliography), have been out of print ever since their first publication, which often dates back to the 1920s or 30s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crime_fiction (2536 words)

	Bess: Film Type
		Crime and Gangster Films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or gangsters, particularly bankrobbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and murdering their way through life.
		Detective Films are usually considered a sub-type of mystery and crime films (or film noir) that focus on the central character, the hard-boiled detective-hero, as he/she meets various adventures and challenges in the cold and methodical pursuit of the criminal or the solution to the crime.
		Mystery Films are a particular type of crime film, exploring the unsolved crime (usually the murder or disappearance of one or more of the characters, or a theft), the unmasking of the perpetrator, and an end to the effects of the villainy.
	techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us /Group6/filmtype.htm (3703 words)

	The Crime Film by J.J. Maloney
		Crime films are different from sex films in one important respect, authenticity.
		When a crime film achieves greatness it is because it is rooted in the truth, even though it is stereotyped and far more simplistic than the truth.
		Such films became stereotypes that would dictate the course of prison movies in much the way that the early gangster films implanted a stamp of "authenticity" by which later films (and gangsters) would be judged.
	www.crimemagazine.com /crimefilm.htm (3855 words)

	Crime and Gangster Films
		Gangster/crime films are usually set in large, crowded cities, to provide a view of the secret world of the criminal: dark nightclubs or streets with lurid neon signs, fast cars, piles of cash, sleazy bars, contraband, seedy living quarters or rooming houses.
		Crime plots also include questions such as how the criminal will be apprehended by police, private eyes, special agents or lawful authorities, or mysteries such as who stole the valued object.
		The lead role in each film (a gangster/criminal or bootleg racketeer of the Prohibition Era) was glorified, but each one ultimately met his doom in the final scenes of these films, due to censors' demands that they receive moral retribution for their crimes.
	www.filmsite.org /crimefilms.html (2158 words)

	Crime and Gangster Films
		Crime dramas of gun-crazed killers, daring or troubled protagonists, or real-life criminals were commonplace, often with endearing, charismatic characters that evoked the earlier, 30s style gangster films.
		In Fritz Lang's classic crime film noir The Big Heat (1953), Glenn Ford played a vengeful homicide detective (after his wife was killed in a car bombing) in pursuit of a big crime operation and its crime lord to clean up the corruption with the aid of a gangster's moll (Gloria Grahame).
		The caper film was another subgenre of the crime film that developed in the 1950s - John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950) was a superb film-noirish example of the 'heist' picture, depicting a gang of assorted criminals conducting a carefully-planned jewel robbery caper.
	www.filmsite.org /crimefilms2.html (2756 words)

	Crime Scenes: Robinson Devor’s Police Beat and Travis Wilkerson’s Who Killed Cock Robin? By Tom Charity
		She calls it, “Independent Crime Crime Crime Crime Crime.” For July, this is genre beyond the justice system, beyond conventional morality; “You can’t be sure if it really happened or if it was really criminal.” The scene of the crime is “a familiar journey backwards,” a locus for psychic misdemeanours, imaginary infractions and infringements.
		Z gives the film its moral centre, but it’s telling how alone and apart he is. Underneath his outward composure, he’s riven with emotional insecurities, more susceptible to corruption than he would like to think.
		What we came up with was, let’s not have crime be the literal, prime story source, let’s have it be representative of the protagonist’s inner state, reflecting his inner turmoil.
	www.cinema-scope.com /cs22/int_charity_crimescenes.htm (3129 words)

	Film noir and the German-Hollywood Connection
		In film noir, events often occur in the dark of night, and the characters also tend to have their dark side.
		Despite many variations, most film noir heroes/villains are paranoid loners headed for some dark destiny, but who nevertheless manage to exchange a few snappy lines of dialog with the inevitable femme fatale along the way.
		Purists claim that “true” film noir can't be in color, which would exclude almost all of the neo-noir films from the 1960s to the present.
	www.germanhollywood.com /noir.html (1078 words)

	Amazon.com: Crime Films (Genres in American Cinema): Books: Thomas Leitch,Barry Keith Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of three figures common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger.
		Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger.
		The crime film is the most enduringly popular of all Hollywood genres, the only kind of film that has never once been out of fashion since the dawn of the sound era seventy years ago.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521646715?v=glance (874 words)

	Crime Wave (1954)
		Several of the 1950's era crime caper films, including Armored Car Robbery (1950), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Killing (1956) comprise an important style of classic film noir.
		Carey is such a bizarre and unique screen presence that his appearance in this and his other films amounts to a strange sort of beauty that alternately fascinates and entertains.
		Crime Wave is a film noir that is well worth seeing.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Noir/Articles/CrimeWave/CrimeWave.html (761 words)

	Gangster, Detective and Mystery Films: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Whether or notthe number of films containing crime is increasing and, if so, for whichkinds of films they are increasing is investigated in a content analysis ofa sample of synopses or all films released in the UK between 1945 and 1991.The results of the analysis are discussed.
		He notes that the film moves uneasily between an adamant defense of the existence of an incomprehensible feminine essence and an equally insistent affirmation of the instability of cultural forms of gender difference.
		The film tells the story of two detectives on the trail of a serial killer who is seeking revenge for society's ills and who bases his crimes on the Seven Deadly Sins.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/gangsterbib.html (10046 words)

	Class, Crime, and Film Noir: Labor, the Fugitive Outsider, and the Anti-Authoritarian Tradition - Questia Online Library
		In the mid-1940s in Hollywood, a series of films validated not the gangster or organized crime, but the ordinary citizen, both working and middle class, who, either through the conditions of his or her everyday life, or, arbitrarily, seemingly by chance, ran afoul of the law.
		These films, with their dark, gloomy city streets and constant images of horizontal lines and bars framing down-on-their-luck lead characters, are most often referred to as film noir.
		The films represent a moment of resistance to an increasingly centralized and anti-labor state and, later, a critique of a rapacious economic system whose representatives waged a frontal assault on Depression-era collective values of the 1930s and those of the wartime period of the 1940s.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5002002080 (684 words)

	CrimeFilmsFrameset-5
		This section at the moment offers a brief introduction to the gangster films of the 1930s; it includes discussion of the mythologised gangster in relation to American capitalism and of the links between gangster films and film noir.
		Other films discussed here include the detective-centred films noirs of the 40s and 50s, police procedurals like Dragnet, vigilante cop films of the 60s and 70s, and the action-cop films of the 80s - discussed more fully in a separate section.
		An overview of the development of film noir and literary noir in postwar America, with some discussion of the iconic figures of the genre and considers key elements in the definition of noir.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/CrimeFilms-5.html (518 words)

	J.J. Maloney
		He described the site (www.crimemagazine.com) as "an encyclopedia of crime: from prisons and parole to serial killers and assassinations, books and movies to unsolved murders and fugitives, from gangsters to cops." Crime Magazine is one of the Internet’s most frequently visited sites about true crime.
		The Great Brinks Robbery At the time, the Brinks heist in Boston was called "the crime of the century." The take of over $2.7 million was the largest in U.S. history, but it was the cold, calculating efficiency of the robbery that so stunned and intrigued the nation.
		, presents an overview of the evolution of crime films, their authenticity, the issue of using films to change public behavior and whether crime films, in the last two decades, have influenced public thinking about such matters as crime, prisons and capital punishment.
	www.crimemagazine.com /j_j.htm (1908 words)

	Film Noir Thrillers at Brian's Drive-In Theater
		Joan Bennett was the queen of film noir in the 1940s, playing the femme fatale in such films as Scarlett Street, The Woman in the Window, and Highway Dragnet.
		Scott Brady was a film noir favorite in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in Port of New York, I Was a Shoplifter, and Undercover Girl.
		Film noir staple Alan Ladd starred in many crime dramas in the 1940s and 1950s, including some features that defined the film noir genre, such as The Glass Key, The Blue Dahlia, and This Gun for Hire.
	www.briansdriveintheater.com /filmnoir.html (995 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Crime Story
		Crime Story is much darker and more serious than many of his films, both before and since.
		For instance, a scene near the beginning of the film shows Jackie trying to calm down a group of angry workers who haven't been paid for their labor by Wong.
		But it is a very good crime film which showcases Chan's more serious acting style and puts an emphasis on plot like none of his other films.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/crime-story.html (791 words)

	Crime Film Imitates Life, Filmmaker To Serve Hard Time Before His Movie's National Release - CBS News
		The film tells the story of three young mob rebels who want to shake up the old guard.
		The script was impressive enough to attract the talents of mob film veterans James Caan, Frank Vincent and Vincent Pastore.
		The challenge of making a film was nothing compared to the challenge of defending himself against a mountain of criminal charges.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/07/21/earlyshow/leisure/main564250.shtml (654 words)

	Elasto Mania CD-ROM
		The whole film is about the power of the Elma.
		Nobody had serious knowledge about filming but still the film is ready.
		Place and time: The film was shot in Budapest in July of 2001.
	elmacd.tripod.com /crime/elmacrime.html (168 words)

	Digital History
		Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture.
		Film and Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement.
		Jacobs, Del. Revisioning Film Traditions: The Pseudo-documentary and the Neo-Western.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/film_genre.cfm (2839 words)

	CULT FILM SITE: Crime and Mystery Films (A-J)
		The inventor of a death ray is murdered and Drummond is framed for the crime.
		Crime comedy about an aging gangster who installs his son as 'head' of his criminal organization.
		Crime comedy starring Wallace Ford and Luana Walters.
	sepnet.com /rcramer/crime.htm (5961 words)

	[Vol 1] Is it a crime film? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Revenge films are a subgenre of the main Crime genre.
		Dogs was a heist film, Pulp was a gangster type film, Jackie Brown was a sting film.
		It's not even a crime film, even though a subplot is involving cops stopping a gunrunner.
	www.tarantino.info /forum/index.php?topic=1164.0 (777 words)

	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In essence, these are the reasons why you need to see this movie: the razor sharp wit, shockingly fast-paced and hysterical dialogue, pulp-fiction-esquire vibe, its pure cheesiness and the cynicism of a beat up old paperback detective novel.
		It thrilled me to see them both in their element, as I was on the verge of disavowing them as marquee/box-office draws.
		One of the year's best films and one of those rare movies where you'll consistently find something new to laugh at, when viewed each of a dozen times.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0373469 (884 words)

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		We will be adding to it regularly and would be grateful for any suggestions (please contact us, giving a brief description of the site you would like us to include).
		: great collection of vintage crime, mystery, detective and film noir cinema posters; all for sale, though the best ones are definitely priced beyond the reach of most students and academics.
		By exploring crime scenes, finding clues, interviewing suspects and solving puzzles you'll discover the evidence to unlock the case.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/Links.html (2637 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Star Wars duo back for crime film
		Star Wars actors Hayden Christensen and Samuel L Jackson are reuniting for a new crime thriller.
		Christensen will next be seen in The Decameron, the film adaptation of Boccaccio's 14th century Italian tales.
		He is currently filming psychological thriller Awake with Jessica Alba and Sam Robards in New York.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/film/4421904.stm (186 words)

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		Section provides an overview of the stories and characters used by gangster/crime films and offers a chronological analysis from the early 20th century to date.
		A compilation of film titles is included at the end, with links to indepth analysis of selected 'classics' or seminal works.
		This film noir section is one of several genres included.
	www.bfi.org.uk /gateway/categories/genre/crimefilmnoir (310 words)

	Crime Wave (1954) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Andre De Toth keeps most of the film in the shadows and only a few scenes take place during the day.
		I found the movie to be pretty brutal for the time and Charles Bronson did a good job portraying most of the brutality.
		All in all, a worthy entry in the film noir genre.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0046878 (299 words)

	Shottas: Luck, famous friends get Jamaica crime film made (article 9/11/02) - Marley Family Fanpage Forum
		Silvera's movie, which marks the feature film debut of rapper Wyclef Jean and reggae star Kymani Marley, son of Jamaican legend Bob Marley, is being screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
		Jean also produced and wrote the score for the film, which is the first project from the production house he co-founded with Silvera.
		Unfamiliar with the country and with few prospects, the deportees too often fall into a life of crime and end up dead or in prison, he said.
	www.melodymakers.de /forum/showthread.php?p=5800#post5800 (591 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Genres: Organized Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Crime and Gangster Films - Essay describing the key characteristics and notable films in the genre, plus an extensive list of the best titles.
		Crime Films - Extensive look at the various crime and gangster film sub-genres, with reviews of over two dozen movies.
		Film list, sections on films about Prohibition and on actors who played gangsters.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Genres/Organized_Crime (226 words)

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