crime film
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Crime Film
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Crime Film
• Archetypes – Typically materialistic, immoral, self-destructive, lack empathy
• Subgenres/Hybrids – Heist, mob, hood, neo-noir, hardboiled
• Closely related to crime fiction• Stories typically chronicle the rise and fall of
the protagonist
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Silent Era
• Louis Feuillade - Les Vampires (1915-1916)• Fritz Lang – Dr. Mabuse (1922)
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Hays Code Era
• William Wellman – Public Enemy (1931)• Mervyn LeRoy- Little Caeser (1931)
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Film Noir
• Billy Wilder – Double Indemnity (1944)• John Huston – The Maltese Flacon (1941)• Distinctly American genre
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New Hollywood
• Martin Scorsese – Mean Streets (1973)• Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather (1972)
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France in the 50s & 60s
• Jean Piere Melville – Le Samourai (1967)• Jules Dasin – Rififi (1955)
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Yakuza Films
• Seijun Suzuki – Tokyo Drifter (1966)• Takeshi Kitano – Sonatine (1993)• Nikkatsu Studios
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Triads Movies
• John Woo - The Killer (1989)• Johnny To – Election (2005)
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Contemporary America
• Michael Mann – Miami Vice (2005)• David Simon – The Wire (2002-2008)