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Dreams and Dead Ends : the American Gangster Film.
This work provides a history of the 20th-century American gangster film. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films that best define and exemplify each period in the development of the American crime film.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1 The Golden Age: The "Classic" Gangster Film; 2 Dark Transformations: The Descent into Noir; 3 The Genre's "Enlightenment": The Stress and Strain for Affirmation; 4 Going Gray and Going Crazy: Disequilibrium and Change at Midcentury; 5 Focus on Feeling: "Seeing" through the Fifties; 6 Contemporary Colorations: The Modernist Perspective; 7 Toward the 21st Century: Frenzies and Despairs; Appendix 1 Criss Cross: One to "Watch Over and Over"; Appendix 2 Gangster/Crime/Noir/ Post-Noir: The Top 14; Appendix 3 50 Post-Godfather Crime/Noir Films Worth a Look.