Screen hustles, grifts and stings / by Amy Sargeant.
2016
P87-P96
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Title
Screen hustles, grifts and stings / by Amy Sargeant.
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ISBN
9781137466891
1137466898
9781137466884
113746688X
1137466898
9781137466884
113746688X
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 98 pages)
Item Number
10.1057/9781137466891 doi
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P87-P96
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.23
Summary
Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. Core studies span from film (Catch Me If You Can, Paper Moon, House of Games) to television (Hustle), from Noir (The Grifters) to Romantic Comedy (Gambit). Frequently, the execution of the con is only finely distinguishable from the conduct of a legitimate profession and, challengingly, a mark is often shown to be culpable in his or her undoing. The best con films, it is suggested, invite re-watching and reward the viewer accordingly: who is complicit and when? How and where is the con achieved? When is the viewer party to the con? And what, if any, moral is to be drawn?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-93) and index.
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Palgrave pivot.
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