Welcome to fear city : crime film, crisis, and the urban imagination /

Holmes, Nathan, 1977-

Welcome to fear city : crime film, crisis, and the urban imagination / Nathan Holmes. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - SUNY series, Horizons of cinema .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Crime film and the messy city -- Parking garage, apartment, disco, skyscraper: Alan J. Pakula's banal modernity -- Everyone here is a cop: urban spectatorship in the super cop cycle -- Detroit 9000 and Hollywood's Midwest -- Bystander effects: Death wish and the Taking of Pelham one two three -- Conclusion: The lure of the city.



9781438471228


Cities and towns in motion pictures.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Crime films--History and criticism.--United States


Electronic Books.

PN1995 / .W453 2018