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Dreams & 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shadoian, Jack
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Golden Age: The "Classic" Gangster Film
  • Little Caesar (1930)
  • Public Enemy (1931)
  • 2. Dark Transformations: The Descent into Noir
  • High Sierra (1941)
  • Killers (1946)
  • 3. Genre's "Enlightenment": The Stress and Strain for Affirmation
  • Kiss of Death (1947)
  • Force of Evil (1948)
  • Gun Crazy (1949)
  • 4. Going Gray and Going Crazy: Disequilibrium and Change at Midcentury
  • D.O.A. (1949)
  • White Heat (1949)
  • 5. Focus on Feeling: "Seeing" through the Fifties
  • Pickup on South Street (1953)
  • 99 River Street (1953), The Phenix City Story (1955), The Brothers Rico (1957)
  • Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  • 6. Contemporary Colorations: The Modernist Perspective
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • Point Blank (1967)
  • Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1975), and After
  • 7. Toward the 21st Century: Frenzies and Despairs
  • Once upon a Time in America (1984)
  • Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
  • App. 1 Criss Cross: One to "Watch Over and Over"
  • App. 2 Gangster/Crime/Noir/Post-Noir: The Top 14
  • App. 3 50 Post-Godfather Crime/Noir Films Worth a Look
  • App. 4 Aging Well: 50 Vintage Gangster/Crime/Noir Films.