The BFI companion to crime
Phil Hardy (Editor), Richard Attenborough, British Film Institute
"A complete and detailed guide to crime on film: prison dramas, film noir, heist movies, juvenile delinquents, serial killers, bank robbers, and many other subgenres and motifs. The historical and social background to movie crime is covered by articles on the FBI, the Mafia, the Japanese yakuza, prohibition, boxing, union rackets, drugs, poisoning, prostitution, and many other topics."--Cover
Print Book, English, 1997
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997