A contributing editor of Literature/Film Quarterly, he is the author of What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation and The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock. Thomas Leitch is Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at the University of Delaware. This blurring, Leitch maintains, reflects and fosters a deep social ambivalence toward crime and criminals, while the criminal, victim, and avenger characters effectively map the shifting relations between subgenres, such as the erotic thriller and the police film, within the larger genre of crime film that informs them all. Analyzing how each of the subgenres establishes oppositions among its ritual antagonists, he shows how the distinctions among them become blurred throughout the course of the century. Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, from Fury (1936) to Fargo (1996), Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim, and the avenger. CRIME FILMS This book surveys the entire range of crime films, including important subgenres such as the gangster film, the private-eye film, film noir, as well as the victim film, the erotic thriller, and the crime comedy.
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