On Pros and Cons and Bills and Gates: The Heist Film as Pleasure

In: Film-Philosophy. Vol. 24, Nr.3, 2020. S. 304-320. This article tries to shed light on the multiple, but underrated pleasures of the heist film – a genre that has attracted numerous major directors from Jean-Pierre Melville and Stanley Kubrick to Michael Mann and Steven Soderbergh, but has received limited scholarly attention. I approach the genre […]