Table of Contents
List if illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Parole overdue: releasing the British crime film into the critical community, 2. The censors and British gangland, 1913-1990, 3. Spin a dark web, 4. Outrage: No Orchids for Miss Blandish, 5. Men, women and money: masculinity in crisis in the British professional crime film 1946-1965, 6. The higher heel: women and the post-war British crime film, 7. The emergence of the British tough guy: Stanley Baker, masculinity and the crime thriller, 8. Ordinary people: 'New Wave' realism and the British crime film 1959-1963, 9. Performance: interview with Donald Cammell, 10. Mike Hodges discusses Get Carter with the NFT audience, 23 September 1997, 11. A revenger's tragedy - Get Carter, 12. Dog eat dog: The Squeeze and the Sweeney films, 13. Space in the British crime film, 14. Allegorising the nation: British gangster films of the 1980s, 15. From underworld to underclass: crime and British cinema in the 1990s, Index
