Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings: Stings, Grifts, Hustles and the Long Con

by Amy Sargeant (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2015

  $69.23

  Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. The best con films, it is suggested, invite re-watching and reward the viewer accordingly: who is complicit and when?