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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