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Public enemies, public heroes : screening the gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil /
In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower-class desires to "make it" in an Amer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower-class desires to "make it" in an America dominated by Anglo-Saxon Protestant ideals and devastated by the Great Depression. By the late 1940s, however, their focus shifted to the problems of a culture maladjusting to a new peacetime sociopolitical order governed by corporate capitalism. The gangster no longer challenged the establishme. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780226550343 0226550346 0226550311 9780226550312 0226550338 9780226550336 |