Leach, Jim. <br/><br/>
The Best Laid Plans :  Interrogating the Heist Film. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (269 pages) 
 - Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series .
 - Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: . . . of Heists and Men -- 1. The International Heist Film -- All for Naught: The American Heist Film in the Fifties -- "What Price Glory?": Postwar British Heist Films -- The Joy of Burglary: Wealth Relocation Strategies and Other Entertainments in the Postwar French Policier -- From Nickel Mines to Plastic Vaginas: The Heist Genre in Canadian Cinema -- 2. Gender, Race, and Class in the Heist Film -- Men, Women, and the Heist Film -- Masculinity, Morality, and Action: Michael Mann and the Heist Movie -- Hollywood and the Black Stickup: Race and the Meaning of the Heist on the Big White Screen -- The Inevitability of Failure: The Small-Time Criminal and the Heist Film -- 3. The Aesthetics and Ideology of the Heist Film -- Economic Sentiments in Kubrick's The Killing and Furukawa's Cruel Gun Story -- Heists and "Eye-sts": Sense and Sensuality in the Aesthetic Experience of the Heist Film -- The Galerie Imaginaire of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Trilogy: Modernist Painting in the Contemporary Heist Film -- September 11 as Heist -- Select Filmography -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Explores the significance of the heist film genre. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814342251 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Crime films.<br/>Caper films-History and criticism.<br/>Detective and mystery films-History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.C66 .B478 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.436556