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The introspective realist crime film relies on pathos that reveals social issues through realism and introspection. It shows continuity with the aesthetics and themes of the 1970s Hollywood revisionist thriller that survived through the 1980s and 1990s in police television series and resurfaced in a good number of the crime films of the 2000s and 2010s. Its cultural background is a sense of paranoia that pervaded the United States during the 2000s and a realist aesthetic borrowed from the 1970s thriller. This crime film trend has a transnational dimension, as it informs films produced in at least Europe and Latin America that share social concerns with US films.
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García-Mainar, L.M. (2016). The Introspective Realist Crime Film. In: The Introspective Realist Crime Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49653-9_2
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