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Availability:In StockContributor:Steve ChibnallSeries:British Film GuidesPublish date:2003-04-25Pages:144
Languages:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781860649103ISBN-10:1860649106UPC:9781860649103Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:Guides & Reviews, History & CriticismSize:8.58 x 5.58 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.43Product ID:SC2YJ02GP2
Mike Hodges' bleak gangster film was released in 1971 to controversy and mixed reviews. Three decades later in the British Film Institute's millennial poll, the film was voted one of the 20 best British films of all time. Steve Chibnall's enjoyable and fresh account relates the film to others in its genre like Point Blank and Dirty Harry, profiles the people involved in its making and presents a fascinating analysis of the film text itself. He completes the story-so-far, looking at the critical reception, and cultural context and the two remakes: the 1972 blaxploitation film Hit Man and the new Stephen T. Kay movie, set in the US.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781860649103ISBN-10:1860649106UPC:9781860649103Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:Guides & Reviews, History & CriticismSize:8.58 x 5.58 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.43Product ID:SC2YJ02GP2
Steve Chibnall is leader of the Film Studies Pathway and coordinator of the British Cinema and Television Research Group, De Montfort University, Leicester.
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