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Crime films

Here are entered works on fictional films that feature the commission and investigation of crimes.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Motion pictures

• Detective and mystery films
• Film noir

• Criminal films

• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)

• Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Stanley Orr (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2007), ed. by Sharon R. Sherman and Mikel J. Koven (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Film Quarterly: Forty Years, A Selection (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Brian Henderson, Ann Martin, and Lee Amazonas (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by M. B. Iampolskii, trans. by Harsha Ram (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plays, Movies, and Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Jody McAuliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Movies From A.A.P.: Programs of Quality From Quality Studios (1957), by Associated Artists Productions (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Framing French Culture (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2015), ed. by Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann, and Peter Poiana (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• The Art of Cineplastics (Boston: Four Seas Co., 1923), by Élie Faure, trans. by Walter Pach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23; also, Who's Who in the Movies, and the Yearbook of the American Screen (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), ed. by Robert E. Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Film: Seine Mittel, Seine Ziele (in German; Berlin: Schuster und Loeffler, 1921), by Urban Gad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Making the Movies (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919), by Ernest A. Dench (page images at HathiTrust)
• That Marvel, the Movie: A Glance at its Reckless Past, its Promising Present, and its Significant Future (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923), by Edward S. Van Zile, contrib. by Will H. Hays
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Radiomovies, Radiovision, Television (Washington: National Capital Press, c1929), by C. Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2019), by Hannah Frank, ed. by Daniel Morgan, contrib. by Tom Gunning (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)
• Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1998), by David Bordwell (page images and PDF with commentary at Michigan)
• Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by William C. Wees (HTML at UC Press)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Photogénie (in French; Paris: M. de Brunoff, ca. 1920), by Louis Delluc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Photoplay: A Psychological Study (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1916), by Hugo Münsterberg (Gutenberg text)

• The Tread of a White Man's Foot: Australian Pacific Colonialism and the Cinema, 1925-62 (Canberra: Pandanus Books, c2006), by Jane Landman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23; also, Who's Who in the Movies, and the Yearbook of the American Screen (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), ed. by Robert E. Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Sheri-Marie Harrison (PDF at Ohio State)

• Library of Congress Catalog: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips (partial serial archives)
• Motion Pictures, 1894-1912, Identified From the Records of the United States Copyright Office (1953), by Library of Congress Copyright Office, ed. by Howard Lamarr Walls
  • with errata and addenda: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures (6th edition; c1936), by Kodascope Libraries (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalogue of the National Film Library of Sixteen Millimeter Motion Pictures (first edition; Los Angeles: National Film Library, c1931), by National Film Library (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalog of Copyright Entries, Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures, 1912-1939, by Library of Congress Copyright Office
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Catalog of Copyright Entries, Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures, 1960-1969, by Library of Congress Copyright Office
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1949, No. 248: John Howard Lawson, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent; No. 249: Dalton Trumbo, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent: Brief of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Cultural Workers in Motion Pictures and Other Arts, and of Members of the Professions, as Amici Curiae (Los Angeles: Parker and Co., printers, ca. 1949), by Max Radin and Carey McWilliams, contrib. by Alexander Meiklejohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• European Cinema: Face to Face With Hollywood (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2005), by Thomas Elsaesser (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• The Phantom Herd (1916), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)

• The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Caryl Flinn (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Landscapes of Resistance: The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Barton Byg (HTML at UC Press)

• To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979), by Noël Burch, ed. by Annette Michelson (page images and PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• The Boy Scouts With the Motion Picture Players, by Robert Shaler (Gutenberg text)

• Moving Places: A Life at the Movies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Jonathan Rosenbaum (HTML at UC Press)

• Hollywood Cesspool: A Startling Survey of Movieland Lives and Morals, Pictures and Results (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1958), by Robert L. Sumner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Movies, Delinquency, and Crime (New York: Macmillan, 1933), by Herbert Blumer and Philip M. Hauser
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Propaganda in Moving Pictures: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of The Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, 77th Congress, 1st Session, on S. Res. 152, a Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of War Propaganda Disseminated by the Motion Picture Industry and of Any Monopoly in the Production, Distribution or Exhibition of Motion Pictures, September 9 to 26, 1941 (Washington: GPO, 1942), by United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theology at the Movies (electronic edition, based on 1995 print edition with additions), by John M. Frame (HTML at frame-poythress.org)

• Jump Cut (partial serial archives)
• Film Quarterly (American journal, 1958-) (partial serial archives)
• Filmbulletin (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Boxoffice (partial serial archives)
• American Cinematographer (partial serial archives)
• Film Daily Year Book (partial serial archives)
• Photoplay (partial serial archives)
• Business Screen (partial serial archives)
• Screenland (partial serial archives)
• The Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television (partial serial archives)
• Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)
• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)
• International Motion Picture Almanac (partial serial archives)
• Film Daily (partial serial archives)
• The Motion Picture Almanac (partial serial archives)
• The Reel Journal (partial serial archives)
• Motion Picture News Blue Book (partial serial archives)
• Talking Screen (full serial archives)
• Motion Picture Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Moving Picture World (partial serial archives)
• Kinema Junpō (in Japanese) (partial serial archives)
• Motion Picture Classic (partial serial archives)
• Cine-Mundial (in Spanish; New York: Chalmers, 1916-; 1920 issues online) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cinema News (New York, 1916-1919?) (partial serial archives)
• Movie Makers (published by the Amateur Cinema League; 1929 issues are online) (partial serial archives)
• Movie Weekly (partial serial archives)
• Radio Guide (partial serial archives)
• International Photographer (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.