{"product_id":"the-introspective-realist-crime-film-von-luis-m-garcia-mainar","title":"The Introspective Realist Crime Film","description":"\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003e\n                                        This book explores the formal and thematic conventions of  crime film, the contexts in which these have flourished and their links with  the social issues of a globalized world. The crime film has traditionally been identified  with suspense, a heterogeneous aesthetic and a tacit social mind. However, a  good number of the crime films produced since the early 2000s have shifted  their focus from action or suspense and towards melodrama in narratives that  highlight the social dimension of crime, intensify their realist aesthetics  and dwell on subjectivity. With the 1940s wave of Hollywood semi-documentary  crime films and 1970s generic revisionism as antecedents, these crime films  find inspiration in Hollywood cinema and constitute a transnational trend.  With a close look at Steven Soderbergh’s \n                    \n                    \u003ci\u003eTraffic\u003c\/i\u003e\n                                          (2000), David Fincher’s \n                    \n                    \u003ci\u003eZodiac\u003c\/i\u003e\n                                          (2007), Jacques Audiard’s \n                    \n                    \u003ci\u003eUn prophète\u003c\/i\u003e\n                                          (2009) and Tomas Alfredson’s \n                    \n                    \u003ci\u003eTinker  Tailor Soldier Spy\u003c\/i\u003e\n                                         (2011), this book sets out the stylistic and thematic  conventions, contexts and cultural significance of a new transnational trend  in crime film.\n                    \n                    \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n                                    \n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n                            \n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781137496522\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9781137496522","offer_id":46800138371397,"sku":"9781137496522","price":53.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/d0d7ff0c-8f79-4eca-82ab-2a1a7f38b3d1.jpg?v=1775795405","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-introspective-realist-crime-film-von-luis-m-garcia-mainar","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}