Bibliograph

Dreams and dead ends, the American gangster/crime film, Jack Shadoian

Type

Label

Dreams and dead ends, the American gangster/crime film, Jack Shadoian

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-358) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dreams and dead ends

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

3002610

Responsibility statement

Jack Shadoian

Sub title

the American gangster/crime film

Table Of Contents

I.The golden age: the "classic" gangster film : 1. Little Caesar -- 2. The public enemy -- II. Dark transformations: the decent into noir : 3. High sierra -- 4. The killers -- II. The genre's "enlightenment": the stress and strain for affirmation : 5. Kiss of death -- 6. Force of evil -- 7. Gun crazy -- IV. Going gray and going crazy: disequilibrium and change at midcentury : 8. D.O.A. -- 9. White heat -- V. Focus on feeling: "seeing" through the fifties : 10. Pickup on south street -- 11. 99 River street, The Phoenix city story, The Brother Rico -- 12. Kiss me deadly -- VI. Contemporary colorations: the modernist perspective : 13. Bonnie and Clyde -- 14. Point blank -- 15. The godfather, godfather 2, and after

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