Review of Thieves Like Us (1974) by Jeremiah Kipp for Slant Magazine — 17 Apr 2007
This isn’t simply another version of the mythologizing tactics that saw Bonnie Parker emulating the flappers from Gold Diggers of 1933 in Bonnie and Clyde. Altman refuses to romanticize his characters’ impressionable innocence, but nor is he resolute to assert cultural impregnability either.
Instead, Altman’s emphasis lies in locating the specificities of historical time and understanding how socially constructed mythologies come to proliferate in the first place.
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This review of Thieves Like Us (1974) was written by Jeremiah Kipp and published by Slant Magazine on 17 Apr 2007.
Thieves Like Us has generally received positive reviews.
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