Murder and the Movies
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0300220014
ISBN 13
9780300220018
Category
Film Criticism
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Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Pages
240
Subject
Motion pictures- Plots, themes, etc; Murder in motion pictures
Abstract
How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn't hurt a fly? Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate subject. While unpacking classics such as Seven, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Strangers on a Train, The Conformist, The Godfather, and The Shining, he offers a disconcerting sense of how the form of movies makes us accomplices in this sinister narrative process. By turns seductive and astringent, very serious and suddenly hilarious, Murder and the Movies admits us into what Thomson calls "a warped triangle": the creator working out a compelling death; the killer doing his and her best; and the entranced reader and spectator trying to cling to life and a proper sense of decency.
Description
Contents:
In Ozark
Alone
Red Rum
I could
It's not fair
What is an overlook?
A nice English murder
The good soldier
We can kill anybody
Cruel being kind
A lark! An aside
Are murderers crazy?
Single-handed
Femme fatale
The woodman's bright axe
Slaughter
The room I had to live in
Solitary confinement
And now, Death
In Ozark
Alone
Red Rum
I could
It's not fair
What is an overlook?
A nice English murder
The good soldier
We can kill anybody
Cruel being kind
A lark! An aside
Are murderers crazy?
Single-handed
Femme fatale
The woodman's bright axe
Slaughter
The room I had to live in
Solitary confinement
And now, Death
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