American gangster cinema from Little Caesar to Pulp fiction
"Much analysis of gangster movies has been based upon a study of the gangster as a malign figuration of the American Dream, originally set in the era of the Depression. This text extends previous analysis of the genre by examining the evolution of gangster movies from the 1930s to the contempor...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan
2002
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| Edición: | First published 2002 |
| Colección: | Crime files series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Modernity and the Classic Gangster Film
- Silent and early sound contexts for the 'classic' cycle
- The 'classic' cycle in its critical context
- Little Caesar: an untypical 'classic'
- The gangster and modernity
- The Public Enemy: modernity, space, and masculinity
- The gangster and the gang
- Scarface: everything to excess
- Repressing modernity: the studios and the Hays Office
- The Post-Code Gangster: Ideology and Social Conscience
- The return of ideology: the G-Man and early post-moratorium variations
- The social gangster
- 'He used to be a big shot': The Roaring Twenties, history, modernity, and the gangster
- The Death of the Big Shot: the Gangster in the 1940s
- Early variations of the 1940s
- High Sierra: re-visiting and renewing the genre
- Revisiting the family plot
- The post-war big shot
- Outside Society, Outside the Gang: the Alienated Noir Gangster
- Post-war transitions: film noir's cultural and cinematic context
- Film noir and its discourses
- Gangsters and film noir
- The emasculated male in early gangster noir
- From small gangs to big business
- Late gangster noir: the triumph of technology
- Order and Chaos, Syndicates and Heists
- Heists: rationalised gangs and fragmented individuals
- Syndicates and rogue cops: un-American visions
- Nostalgia and Renewal in the Post-Classical Gangster Film
- From retro to modern: gangsters in the 1960s
- The gangster film as epic: The Godfather trilogy
- Gangsters on the margins: the gangster-loser film and blaxploitation
