Crime Films: Investigating the Scene

Kirsten Moana Thompson

September, 2007
Paper, 144 pages, 10 black and white
ISBN: 978-1-905674-13-8
Wallflower Press
$20.00

"From Sleuths in deerstalkers on fog-shrouded moors and little old ladies from St. Mary Mead to psychological profilers and forensic criminologists in the mean streets of Las Vegas and Miami, from the library-with-a-candlestick to the bedroom-with-an-icepick, this compact volume leads us in the company of gangsters and g-men, safecrackers and serial killers, private dicks and public defenders, feds and femme fatales on a whistle-stop tour of our cinematic and televisual fascination with the left-handed form of human endeavour." — Mark Bould, University of the West of England

Related Subjects

• Film

Series

• Short Cuts (Wallflower Press)

About the Author

Kirsten Moana Thompson is assistant professor of film studies at Wayne State University and the co-editor of Perspectives on German Cinema.

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