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Public enemies, public heroes : screening the gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
- Title
- Public enemies, public heroes : screening the gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil / Jonathan Munby.
- Author
- Munby, Jonathan.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.G3 M86 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Screening Crime in the USA: An Undervalued Symbiosis -- 1. The Gangster's Silent Backdrop: Contesting Victorian Uplift and the Culture of Prohibition -- 2. The Enemy Goes Public: Voicing the Cultural Other in the Early 1930s Talking Gangster Film -- 3. Manhattan Melodrama's "Art of the Weak": Tactics of Survival and Dissent in the Post-Prohibition Gangster Film -- 4. Ganging Up against the Gangster: Censorship, the Movies, and Cultural Transformation, 1915-1935 -- 5. Crime, Inc.: Beyond the Ghetto/Beyond the Majors in the Postwar Gangster Film -- 6. Screening Crime the Liberal Consensus Way: Postwar Transformations in the Production Code -- 7. The "Un-American" Film Art: Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, and the Political Significance of Film Noir's German Connection -- Epilogue: From Gangster to Gangsta: Against a Certain Tendency of Film Theory and History -- App. Production Code Administration Film Analysis Forms, 1934-1957.
- ISBN
- 0226550311 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226550338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98022151
- OCLC
- 39147825
- ocm39147825
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries