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Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.
2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from ...
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