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Annotation 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. Publisher Description "Get Carter" is now widely acknowledged as the finest British gangster film of all time. Released in 1971, the film fell out of fashion until the cultural changes of the 1990s gave a new currency to its pessimistic vision of a doomed male within a decaying social order. Before its re-release in 1999, Mike Hodges' fusion of the crime genre with social realism received surprisingly little critical attention. Steve Chibnall's book now gives "Get Carter" the consideration it demands. With the co-operation of Hodges and access to rare documents, including an early draft of the script, Chibnall places the film in its social context, describes its making, discusses its characteristics, scene by scene, and charts its changing status since the 1970s. Author Biography Steve Chibnall is leader of the Film Studies Pathway and coordinator of the British Cinema and Television Research Group, De Montfort University, Leicester. |
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