[ecrea] Studying the British Crime Film (Paul Elliot) - a new book on an under-published area

A new book from Auteur may well be of interest to list members (with 
apologies for cross-posting), for whom a discount is available (see 
below) -


*Studying The British Crime Film*
/Paul Elliott/

ISBN: 978-1-906733-74-2   £18.99

http://auteur.co.uk/?product=studying-the-british-crime-film-paul-elliott


Ever since its inception, British cinema has been obsessed with crime 
and the criminal. One of the first narrative films to be produced in 
Britain, the 1905 short /Rescued by Rover/, was a fast paced tale of 
abduction and kidnap and the first British sound film, Alfred 
Hitchcock’s /Blackmail/ (1929), was concerned with murder and criminal 
guilt. Yet for a genre that is seemingly so important to the British 
cinematic character, there is little direct theoretical or historical 
work written upon it. The Britain of British cinema is often written 
about in terms of its national history, its ethnic diversity or its 
cultural tradition but very rarely in terms of its criminal tendencies 
and its darker underbelly. /*Studying the British Crime Film */makes the 
assumption that, in order to know how British cinema truly works, it is 
necessary to pull back the veneer of the costume piece, the historical 
drama or the rom-com and take a glimpse at what hides beneath.

/*Studying the British Crime Film*/ looks closely at a variety films 
relating to different aspects of criminal behaviour, including gangland 
culture from /Brighton Rock/ (1947) to /Essex Boys /(2000), the heist 
film from /The League of Gentlemen/ (1960) to /Sexy Beast/ (2000), from 
the post-war serial killer of /10 Rillington Place/ (1971) to the seedy 
underworld of contemporary Britain in /London to Brighton/ (2006). Each 
chapter not only offers an in-depth reading of the films under 
discussion but also guides the reader through the processes of studying 
British cinema in terms of both genre and nationality, giving practical 
skills as well as theoretical knowledge.

*Paul Elliott* teaches Film and Film Theory at the University of 
Worcester. He has published on Hitchcock, embodied film theory and the 
French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, as well as various elements of 
British cinema.

*MECCSA list members can order the book for a special price of £15.00 
(free p+p) by emailing (office /at/ auteur.co.uk) <mailto:(office /at/ auteur.co.uk)> 
with 'British Crime Film' in the subject line.
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