Steve Chibnall is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at de Montfort University, Leicester. Robert Murphy is senior Research Fellow at de Montfort University.

• List if illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1: Parole overdue: releasing the British crime film into the critical community, Chapter 2: The censors and British gangland, 1913–1990, Chapter 3: Spin a dark web, Chapter 4: Outrage: No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Chapter 5: Men, women and money: masculinity in crisis in the British professional crime film 1946–1965, Chapter 6: The higher heel: women and the post-war British crime film, Chapter 7: The emergence of the British tough guy: Stanley Baker, masculinity and the crime thriller, Chapter 8: Ordinary people: 'New Wave' realism and the British crime film 1959–1963, Chapter 9: Performance: interview with Donald Cammell, Chapter 10: Mike Hodges discusses Get Carter with the NFT audience, 23 September 1997, Chapter 11: A revenger's tragedy – Get Carter, Chapter 12: Dog eat dog: The Squeeze and the Sweeney films, Chapter 13: Space in the British crime film, Chapter 14: Allegorising the nation: British gangster films of the 1980s, Chapter 15: From underworld to underclass: crime and British cinema in the 1990s, A filmography of British underworld films, 1939–1997, Index

'An all-encompassing study, there is much of interest to digest here.' - Film Review'British Science Fiction Cinema British Crime Cinema The two books may be aimed more at students than buffs, but anyone who picks them up will find plenty of food for thought.' - Independent