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Public enemies, public heroes : screening the gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil

Munby, Jonathan.

Available at Central Connecticut State University Stack Level 5 (PN1995.9 G3 M86 1999 )()

Title:
Public enemies, public heroes : screening the gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Author/Creator: Munby, Jonathan.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Creation Date: 1999
Language: English
Physical Description: xii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and indexes.
Subjects: Gangster films -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and indexes.
Contents: Screening crime in the USA: an undervalued symbiosis
The gangster's silent backdrop: Contesting Victorian uplift and the culture of Prohibition
The enemy goes public: Voicing the cultural other in the early 1930s talking gangster film
Manhattan melodrama's "Art of the Weak": Tactics of survival and dissent in the post-Prohibition gangster film
Ganging up against the gangster: Censorship, the movies, and the cultural transformation, 1915-1935
Crime, Inc.: Beyond the ghetto/Beyond the majors in the postwar gangster film
Screening crime the liberal consensus way: Postwar transformations in the Production Code
The "Un-American" film art: Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, and the political significance of Film Noir's German connection
From gangster to gangsta: Against a certain tendency of film theory and history.
OCLC Number: 39147825
Identifier: ISBN0226550311;ISBN0226550338;LCCN98022151

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