What is it about?
The aim of this chapter is to provide a perspective on the three major trends at work relating to the revitalization of the French Crime Film in the 2000s: the American-style thriller, the “old-style” film noir, and the social crime film.
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Why is it important?
The chapter analyzes the different ways in which these three tendencies reconfigure a traditional (masculine) genre: what do these “new crime films” of the 2000s reveal about the evolution of the cinematic landscape, masculine mindsets, and the state of affairs?
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This page is a summary of: Between Tradition and Innovation, November 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/9781118585405.ch11.
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