The Heist Begins
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The Heist Film
Author: Daryl Lee
language: en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: 2014-03-14
A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller’s development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into sleek capers in the 1960s (Ocean’s Eleven, Gambit, How to Steal a Million) and splashing across screens in the 2000s in remake after remake (The Thomas Crown Affair, The Italian Job, The Good Thief). Built around a series of case studies (Rififi, Bob le Flambeur, The Killing, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Getaway, the Ocean’s trilogy), this volume explores why directors of such varied backgrounds, from studio regulars (Siodmak, Crichton, Siegel, Walsh and Wise) to independents (Anderson, Fuller, Kubrick, Ritchie and Soderbergh), are so drawn to this popular genre.
Armed Heist: Shooting Gun Game
Book Outline Part 1: The Setup Introduction to the protagonist, a skilled but disillusioned ex-special forces soldier named Alex Ryder The city: a gritty urban landscape with rising crime and corrupt law enforcement Introduction of the heist team members, each with specialized skills (hacker, getaway driver, demolitions expert, sniper) Planning the heist: target is a high-security armored cash transport vehicle carrying millions Motivation: revenge, redemption, or desperate need Part 2: The Heist Begins Stealth and strategy: infiltrating the transport’s route The shooting game begins: intense gunfights with security forces, rival gangs, and police Tactical decisions and quick reflexes determine success or failure Use of weapons, cover, and teamwork Part 3: Aftermath and Escape Escaping the police dragnet Betrayal within the team Final showdown with a ruthless crime lord or corrupt cop Consequences of the heist—does the team survive or fall apart? Part 4: Epilogue Reflection on the cost of violence and crime Open-ended hint at a sequel or continuation
Keyness in Texts
Author: Marina Bondi
language: en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date: 2010-01-01
This is corpus linguistics with a text linguistic focus. The volume concerns lexical inequality, the fact that some words and phrases share the quality of being key---and thereby reflect or promote important themes in some textual contexts, while others do not. The patterning of words which differ in their centrality to text meaning is of increasing interest to corpus linguistics. At the same time software resources are yielding increasingly more detailed ways of identifying and studying the linkages between key words and phrases in text databases. This volume brings together work from some of the leading researchers in this field. It presents thirteen studies organized in three sections, the first containing a series of studies exploring the nature of keyness itself, then a set of five studies looking at keyness in specific discourse contexts, and then three studies with an educational focus. "Edited by two central figures in the development of keyword analysis, and with contributions from leading specialists in the field, this unique collection brings together a wide range of insights into how keyword analysis can contribute both to linguistic and cultural analysis and to language education. It deserves a place on the bookshelves of anyone with an interest in these areas"---Christopher Tribble, King's College, London "This is a fascinating volume addressing both methodological and theoretical questions in the study of keywords. It pushes forward the exploration of the nature of keyness and the interpretation of keywords in their textual contexts. An inspiring contribution to a central area of corpus linguistics." ---Michaela Mahlberg, University of Nottingham