Arthouse Crime Scenes: Art Film, Genre and Crime in Contemporary World Cinema

How is crime represented in art cinema? And how can this be understood in the context of global sociopolitical and film-industrial trends? Crime might be shown or lurk only at the edges. It might be left unresolved or unexplained. Arthouse crimes can be petty and small scale or raise big questions associated with the arthouse sector: political issues, the nature of humanity, truth and knowability.

Arthouse Crime Scenes is the first book to address the relationship between art cinema and crim...