| Description |
xii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Screening crime in the USA: an undervalued symbiosis -- The gangster's silent backdrop: Contesting Victorian uplift and the culture of Prohibition -- The enemy goes public: Voicing the cultural other in the early 1930s talking gangster film -- Mahattan melodrama's "Art of the Weak": Tactics of survival and dissent in the post-Prohibition gangster film -- Ganging up aginst the gangster: Censorship, the movies, and the cultural transformation, 1915-1935 -- Crime, Inc.: Beyond the ghetto/Beyond the majors in the postwar gangster film -- Screening crime the liberal consensus way: Postwar transformations in the Production Code -- The "Un-American" film art: Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, and the political significance of Film Noir's German connection -- From gangster to gangsta: Against a certain tendency of film theory and history. |
| Subject |
Gangster films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0226550311 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226550338 paperback alkaline paper |
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