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The Deadly Gent: British Crime Films of 1970-1972

Published May 9, 2019 by Privilege Of Legends in 70's cinema, 70's film, al capone, art direction, art in film, bfi, blaxploitation, blog essay, british board of film censors, british cinema, british crime films, british films, cinematography, classic film, composers, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing, directing film, director of photography, directors, experimental film, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film distribution, film essay, film genre, film music, film noir, film parody, film posters, film production, film scores, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, foreign film, french cinema, french new wave, gangster films, hard boiled, hollywood, hollywood satire, independent film, jazz, london art, london film, michael caine, mickey spillane, musical theatre, musicals, neo noir, nicolas roeg, organised crime, parody, period films, playwrights, politics, privilege of legends, pulp crime, pulp crime fiction, pulp fiction, raoul walsh, raymond chandler, realism in film, richard burton, satire, screen adaptations, screenwriting, sonny and his pen, sonny syah, symbolism in film, theatre in film, thriller, Uncategorized, walkabout, warner brothers

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Crime and Crane

Published February 22, 2019May 7, 2019 by Privilege Of Legends in crane wilbur, crime fiction, crime film, eagle-lion films, film essay, film genre, film noir, film posters, film production code, film studies, film theory, john alton, organised crime, postwar films, propaganda films, pulp crime fiction, Uncategorized

Film Censorship & Pre-Code Hollywood

Published August 12, 2018August 16, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, al capone, barbara stanwyck, british board of film censors, charles laughton, crime fiction, crime film, edward g. robinson, ernst lubitsch, fatty arbuckle scandal, femme fatale, film censorship, film production code, gangster films, george raft, h.g wells, hays code, hollywood court cases, horror, island of lost souls, james cagney, jean harlow, joan crawford, john dillinger, lewis milestone, little caesar, mccarthyism, murders in the zoo, organised crime, paul muni, pre-code hollywood, pre-code horror, privilege of legends, pulp crime, pulp crime fiction, realism in film, red-headed woman, scarface, science fiction, silent films, sonny and his pen, sonny syah, stock market collapse 1929, the great depression, the island of dr. moreau, the jazz age, the public enemy, tod browning, Uncategorized, w. somerset maugham, walter huston, warner brothers, william desmond taylor, william hays, william wellman

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Six Fatal Kisses

Published March 11, 2018February 27, 2019 by Privilege Of Legends in 40's film, 50's film, academy awards, art direction, art in film, ben hecht, bfi, billy wilder, blog essay, classic film, cold war, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing film, directors, double indemnity, fascism, femme fatale, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, gangster films, hard boiled, hays code, hollywood, independent american cinema, independent film, james cagney, james m cain, london film, mccarthyism, mickey spillane, neo noir, privilege of legends, pulp crime, pulp crime fiction, pulp fiction, ralph meeker, raoul walsh, raymond chandler, richard conte, rko pictures, robert aldrich, robert siodmak, sam fuller, samuel fuller, scorsese, screen adaptations, screenwriting, sonny syah, spy films, spy movies, stanley kubrick, Uncategorized, war films

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Ben Hecht: Hollywood Headliner

Published January 30, 2018April 13, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, 40's film, 50's film, academy awards, alfred hitchcock, art in film, auteurs, ben hecht, bfi, black comedy, blog essay, broadway, cinematography, classic film, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing film, directors, film art, film blog, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film parody, film production, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, hollywood, hollywood satire, howard hawks, john ford, john wayne, london film, marilyn monroe, michael curtiz, musicals, NIDA, otto preminger, playwrights, post production, pre-code hollywood, privilege of legends, pulp crime fiction, robert siodmak, satire, screen adaptations, screenwriting, set design, sonny syah, technicolor, theatre in film, Uncategorized, western films

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The Spy Films Of Fritz Lang

Published January 5, 2018January 6, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 40's film, academy awards, adventure films, alfred hitchcock, anti-nazi, anti-war film, art direction, art in film, auteurs, bfi, blog essay, british cinema, carol reed, cinematography, classic film, cold war, creative writing, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing, directing film, directors, fascism, film art, film blog, film censorship, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, film vienna, filmmaking, foreign cinema, foreign film, fritz lang, german expressionism, graham greene, graphic art, hard boiled, hays code, hitchcock, hollywood, independent american cinema, independent film, italian neo-realism, london film, mccarthyism, michael curtiz, neo-realism, neorealism, NIDA, paramount pictures, period films, politics, post production, post-war film, pre-war film, privilege of legends, propaganda film, screen adaptations, screenwriting, silent films, sonny syah, spy films, spy movies, the third man, thriller, Uncategorized, war films, warner brothers, world cinema

A Kurosawa Retrospective: Interview With Franck Lubet

Published March 10, 2017April 13, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, 40's film, 50's film, 60's film, 70's cinema, 80's film, academy awards, akira kurosawa, anti-war film, art direction, art in film, asian cinema, auteurs, best film design, bfi, british cinema, cinematography, classic film, crime fiction, crime film, criterion, cult film, directing, directing film, director of photography, directors, film art, film blog, film design, film essay, film genre, film noir, film posters, film production, film studies, film theory, filmmaking, foreign cinema, foreign film, francis ford coppola, gangster films, hollywood, independent film, japanese cinema, john ford, london film, melodrama, neo-realism, NIDA, period films, post production, post-war film, privilege of legends, pulp crime fiction, quentin tarantino, scorsese, screenwriting, set design, shakespeare, shooting technique, sonny syah, spielberg, symbolism in film, Toshiro Mifune, Uncategorized, world cinema

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