It's got to bleed!

International audienceGiven the considerable breadth of possibilities that crime and criminals evoke in cinema, there is no question of prioritizing a certain theme or approach. On this subject, it was possible to treat screen adaptations of important trials and crimes that shocked the public, to establish historical relationships and correlations between the criminality of one time period or one country and its current on-screen representation, or to concentrate on one or two films more in detail. Cinematographic representations of crime could interest any area of the human sciences (such as sociology, anthropology or psychology), but also film analysts and, of course, criminologists. From the beginning of cinema to the most recent releases, from statistical analysis to aesthetics, from the general to the particular, from one country to another, the variety of approaches and themes shows the potential of this subject