Get Carter: The British Film Guide 6

by Steve Chibnall

Overview

Mike Hodges' bleak gangster film was released in 1971 to controversy and mixed reviews. Three decades later in the British Film Institute's millennial poll, the film was voted one of the 20 best British films of all time. Steve Chibnall's enjoyable and fresh account relates the film to others in its genre like Point Blank and Dirty Harry, profiles the people involved in its making and presents a fascinating analysis of the film text itself. He completes the story-so-far, looking at the critical reception, and cultural context and the two remakes: the 1972 blaxploitation film Hit Man and the new Stephen T. Kay movie, set in the US.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860649103
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/25/2003
Series:	British Film Guides , #6
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Steve Chibnall is leader of the Film Studies Pathway and coordinator of the British Cinema and Television Research Group, De Montfort University, Leicester.

Table of Contents

Credits: Get Carter
• Part I: From Cult to Classic
• The Character of Carter
• The Creation of Carter
• Casing Carter
• Shooting Carter
• Carter in Context
• Part II: Analyzing the Film
• Part III: In the Sights of the Critics
• Gone but Not Forgotten
• Carter Gets Loaded
• Carter is Canonized
• Concluding Carter