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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.