You could add:
THE FLIM FLAM MAN
THE STING 2 (!)
BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY
THE HEIST (1989 TV-movie)
Perhaps even the re-make of OCEAN'S ELEVEN
Sergio
BUFVC
At 17:35 03/09/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am trying to put together a corpus of films that have as their defining
>characteristic the con game and in particular the con game that is
>executed for material profits (not for revenge or other non-monetary
>gains). Hopefully, I ll be able to discuss them as a distinct genre
>(sug-genre or hybrid genre of some sort).
>
>Besides the films of David Mamet, which are the starting point for this
>idea I have been able to locate a few others, including: The Sting, The
>Grifters, Confidence, Swingers, Palmetto, Chance of Music, Rounders, The
>Last Seduction, Kill Me Again, The Con (made for TV movie) and the films
>of Steven Schachter. Obviously a lot of these films have been labelled
>neo-noirs. However, my taking on the subject is different
>
>Any help will be appreciated
>
>Yannis
>
>Yannis Tzioumakis
>Lecturer in Screen Studies
>Liverpool John Moores University
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