02520nam 2200445 450 991081941650332120201125143011.00-300-25628-010.12987/9780300256284(CKB)4100000011370954(MiAaPQ)EBC6272997(DE-B1597)567822(DE-B1597)9780300256284(OCoLC)1181833913(EXLCZ)99410000001137095420201125d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMurder and the movies /David ThomsonNew Haven ;London :Yale University Press,[2020]©20201 online resource (viii, 232 pages)Includes index.0-300-22001-4 Frontmatter -- Contents -- In Ozark -- Alone -- Red Rum -- I Could -- It’s Not Fair -- What Is an Overlook? -- A Nice English Murder -- The Good Soldier -- We Can Kill Anybody -- Cruel Being Kind -- A Lark! An Aside -- Are Murderers Crazy? -- Single-Handed -- Femme Fatale -- The Woodman’s Bright Axe -- Slaughter -- The Room I Had to Live In -- Solitary Confinement -- And Now, Death -- Sources and Thanks -- Index How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn’t hurt a fly?   Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate subject. While unpacking classics such as Seven, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Strangers on a Train, The Conformist, The Godfather, and The Shining, he offers a disconcerting sense of how the form of movies makes us accomplices in this sinister narrative process.   By turns seductive and astringent, very serious and suddenly hilarious, Murder and the Movies admits us into what Thomson calls “a warped triangle”: the creator working out a compelling death; the killer doing his and her best; and the entranced reader and spectator trying to cling to life and a proper sense of decency.Murder in motion picturesMurder in motion pictures.791.43655Thomson David1941-1676941MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819416503321Murder and the movies4110511UNINA