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American gangster cinema : from Little Caesar to Pulp fiction /

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Author / Creator: Mason, Fran, 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Series:Crime files series.
Subjects:
Gangster films > United States > History and criticism.
Gangster films.
United States.
Retention:Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Chronology of the Gangster Film
  • Introduction
  • 1. 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
  • 2. 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
  • 3. 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
  • 4. 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
  • 5. Order and Chaos, Syndicates and Heists
  • Heists: rationalised gangs and fragmented individuals
  • Syndicates and rogue cops: un-American visions
  • 6. 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
  • 7. The Postmodern Spectacle of the Gangster
  • The gangster film in the 1980s
  • Postmodern inflections
  • Postmodern gangsters: spectacle and simulation
  • The 'gangsta' film: spectacle and urban realism
  • Fantasies of escape: Carlito's Way and True Romance
  • Pulp Fiction and after: postmodern gangsters or postmodern film
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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