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The Context of the Introspective Realist Crime Film

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The contexts in which this film trend has emerged include: (1) a generational one, filmmakers who want to recuperate the social mind of some 1970s Hollywood cinema, such as George Clooney or Steven Soderbergh; (2) the quality television series of the past two decades, mainly represented by HBO’s revisionism of classical film genres in The Sopranos or The Wire; (3) transnational thematic concerns, collaborations and aesthetic influences; or (4) a cultural preoccupation with truth and veracity that has emerged in the growth of the documentary and socially committed literature.

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    I thank Sonia Baelo for bringing the phenomenon of fan fiction, and particularly this idea, to my attention.

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    Luis M. García-Mainar

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García-Mainar, L.M. (2016). The Context of the Introspective Realist Crime Film. In: The Introspective Realist Crime Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49653-9_3

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