Template:For Template:Use mdy dates The heist film or caper film is a subgenre of crime film, consisting of films that tell a caper story. These films feature plots in which a team of skillful criminals carry out a clever and daring theft.[1]
Early films in the genre tended to have the heist ultimately fail, as a result of the strictures imposed by the Motion Picture Production Code; since the abandonment of the Production Code, most caper films feature successful heists.[1]
One of the early defining heist films was The Asphalt Jungle (1950), which Film Genre 2000 wrote "almost single-handedly popularised the genre for mainstream cinema". It featured robbers whose personal failings ultimately led to the failure of their robbery. Similar films using this formula were Armored Car Robbery (1950), The Killing (1956), and The Getaway (1972). By the 1990s, heist films "experiment and play with these conventions" and focused more on character relationships than the crime itself.[2]
List of notable heist films
References
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- ↑ SLEEK `SNEAKERS` FITS HEIST GENRE LIKE AN OLD SHOE. Chicago Tribune(September 9, 1992). Retrieved October 27, 2020.
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Further reading
- The Heist Film: Stealing with Style{{#if:Lee|, Lee}. Columbia University Press(2014). ISBN 978-0-231-85058-2
- The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-4224-4
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