DNF

I could not get through this book. One tedious long sentence jumping between endless movies and topics. The premise sounded so good. I love watching movies and also the movies from older decades interest me, and I've always enjoyed crime and thrillers and murder is often part of that.

I was looking forward to learning more about the topic of how murders are portrayed in movies. Perhaps information about types of murders we see more in movies or how the way a movie murder is staged adds to a story. Some Main topics with movie examples to add some imagination to what the author is talking about.

Instead I got an in my eyes unorganized book where no single paragraph had a clear story to tell. There was so much movie name dropping that I felt I had to watch a movie everyday for the next two years to understand what the author was talking about.

Unfortunately this wasn't a hit for me.

This book was given by Netgalley and Yale University Press. This does not affect my opinions on the book.