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One of Hollywood's most triumphant successes is the crime movie. Crime Wave offers an authoritative and entertaining guide to the crime movie genre from its beginnings to the present, charting its history, its sub-genres, and its developments. The book focuses on the most interesting and influential films, from Little Caesar,The Maltese Falcon, Point Blank, and The Godfather trilogy to L.A. Confidential, Ocean's Eleven, and many others.
Crime Wave covers gangster and heist movies, blaxploitation, noir, murder mystery, and vigilante and buddy cop movies. Hughes explores each film's sources and influences, its impact on the crime genre and current fashion, including spin-offs, copies and sequels, themes, style, and box office fortunes. Detailed cast lists are provided for each of the main films, as are biographies and filmographies of the key personnel, along with background details of the films' production, locations, and sets.Films featured include Dirty Harry, Once Upon a Time in America, Get Carter, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, White Heat, GoodFellas, Lethal Weapon and Pulp Fiction.
Crime Wave covers gangster and heist movies, blaxploitation, noir, murder mystery, and vigilante and buddy cop movies. Hughes explores each film's sources and influences, its impact on the crime genre and current fashion, including spin-offs, copies and sequels, themes, style, and box office fortunes. Detailed cast lists are provided for each of the main films, as are biographies and filmographies of the key personnel, along with background details of the films' production, locations, and sets.Films featured include Dirty Harry, Once Upon a Time in America, Get Carter, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, White Heat, GoodFellas, Lethal Weapon and Pulp Fiction.
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Howard Hughes is the author of Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood, Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns and Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns (all I.B. Tauris), and the Kamera Books guide to Spaghetti Westerns.
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*Howard Hughes has written a fine book about a broad and fascinating
subject. Particularly impressive are his pieces about Kiss Me Deadly
and Point Blank. Howard's take on these films is consistently fresh
and intelligent; Crime Wave is an excellent read.* - Alex Cox,
writer, broadcaster and filmmaker
subject. Particularly impressive are his pieces about Kiss Me Deadly
and Point Blank. Howard's take on these films is consistently fresh
and intelligent; Crime Wave is an excellent read.* - Alex Cox,
writer, broadcaster and filmmaker
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