Print version: Holmes, Nathan, 1977- Welcome to fear city : crime film, crisis, and the urban imagination. Albany, NY : SUNY Press, c2018 246 pages SUNY series, horizons of cinema. ISBN 9781438471211
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Crime film and the messy city -- Parking garage, apartment, disco, skyscraper: Alan J. Pakula’s banal modernity -- Everyone here is a cop: urban spectatorship in the super cop cycle -- Detroit 9000 and Hollywood’s Midwest -- Bystander effects: Death wish and the Taking of Pelham one two three -- Conclusion: The lure of the city.