Acknowledgements Introduction: The Heist as Genre 1. Origins: The Noir Heist 2. Foundations: The Noir Heist and its Satire as Aesthetic Parables 3. Conventions: The Heist Adapts its Message 4. Returns: Perpetuating the Myth of Originality in the Remake Select Filmography Select Bibliography Index
Daryl Lee is Associate Professor of French at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses on nineteenth-century French lyric poetry, the city, and urban culture in film, literature, and film theory.
The most sustained analysis of this neglected genre to date. This volume lifts the big caper or heist film from the generic limbo in which it has for too long languished. It deftly demonstrates the heist film's dual generic function as anti-insititution social message and as ongoing address about the place of art in society. -- Barry Keith Grant, Brock University
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