| Vocabulary: | lcsh |
| Type: | topical |
| Status: | approved heading [active] |
| Date Created: | 1998-11-05 00:00:00 |
| Date Modified: | 2012-10-02 16:08:23 |
Street films
Broader Concepts
Scope Notes
- This heading is used as a topical heading for works about films that represent the downtown street as a dangerous lure. When used as a topical heading it is subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical, and/or form subdivisions.
Sources
- Work cat.: 98049586: Dangerous dames, 1999.
- Katz, E. The film encyclopedia, c1994 (Street films, a popular genre in German cinema of the 1920s; typically psychological melodramas in which the downtown street represented danger)
- Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993 (Street film, a type of psychological melodrama current in the German cinema of the 1920s and early 1930s; main motif was the street to which the film's characters were fatalistically drawn)
