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Introduction,literature. A fine — and sometimes indeterminate — line is drawn between the con and the conduct of supposedly legitimate professions. The pleasure of planning and perpetrating the con, it is suggested, is matched in the viewer’s vicarious experience of its enactment.

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Book 2016ennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. Core studies span from film (Catch Me If You Can, Paper Moon, House of Games) to television (Hustle), from Noir (The Grifters) to Romantic Comedy (Gambit). Frequently, the execution of the con is only finely distinguishable from the conduct

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Aesop and Brer Rabbit,Chapters 3 mostly concerned with the television series, Hustle, representing a bowdlerised version of the con. Here, each member of a crew of con artists plays a designated role, and there is jockeying for position in the surrogate family. An honest man has nothing to fear from these bandits, and marks are repeatedly hoisted by their own petard.

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The Big Store, The Grifters . House of Games. ..

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The Long Con, (mise-en-scène, .. The Spanish Prisoner, American Hustle . Focus ..