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