Download or read book The Rise of the American Gangster Film 1913 1930 written by Gerald M. Peary and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of the American Gangster Film 1913 1930 written by Gerald Peary and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Public Enemy written by Harvey Thew and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Enemy, a 1931 Warner Brothers gangster classic, is easily remembered as the movie in which James Cagney used Mae Clarke's nose as a grapefruit grinder. As Cagney recalls, it was just about the first time that "a woman had been treated like a broad on the screen, instead of like a delicate flower." The ambivalence toward women is just one of the many stylistic contradictions that make The Public Enemy worth studying, not only for its intrinsic merits but also as a creative expression bending under the constraints of censorship.
Download or read book Mob Culture written by Lee Grieveson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mob Culture offers a long-awaited, fresh look at the American gangster film, exposing its hidden histories from the Black Hand gangs of the early twentieth century to The Sopranos. Departing from traditional approaches that have typically focused on the "nature" of the gangster, the editors have collected essays that engage the larger question of how the meaning of criminality has changed over time. Grouped into three thematic sections, the essays examine gangster films through the lens of social, gender, and racial/ethnic issues.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book Hollywood Restoration written by Kevin Jack Hagopian and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gangster Film Emergence Variation and Decay of a Genre 1930 1940 written by Stephen Louis Karpf and published by New York : Arno Press, 1973 [c1970]. This book was released on 1973 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dreams and Dead Ends written by Jack Shadoian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams and Dead Ends provides a compelling history of the twentieth-century American gangster film. Beginning with Little Caesar (1930) and ending with Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (1995), Jack Shadoian adroitly analyzes twenty notable examples of the crime film genre. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films--including The Public Enemy, D.O.A., Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather--that best define and represent each period in the development of the American crime film. Richly illustrated with more than seventy film stills, Dreams and Dead Ends details the evolution of the genre through insightful and precise considerations of cinematography, characterization, and narrative style. This updated edition includes new readings of three additional movies--Once Upon a Time in America, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, and Criss Cross--and brings this clear and lively discussion of the history of the gangster film to the end of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Gangster Film Reader written by Alain Silver and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s the gangster film in the United States coincided with a very real and very sensational gangsterism at large in American society. Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932) borrowed liberally from the newspapers and books of the era. With the release of just these three motion pictures in barely more than a year's time, Hollywood quintessentially defined the genre. The characters, the situations, and the icons-from fast cars and tommy-guns to fancy fedoras and fancier molls-established the audience expectations associated with the gangster film that remain in force to this day. As with their Film Noir Reader series, using both reprints of seminal articles and new pieces, editors Silver and Ursini have assembled a group of essays that presents an exhaustive overview of this still vital genre. Reprints of work by such well-known film historians as Robin Wood, Andrew Sarris, Carlos Clarens, Paul Schrader, and Stuart Kaminsky explore the evolution of the gangster film through the 1970s and The Godfather. Parts 2 and 3 comprise two dozen newer articles, most of them written expressly for this volume by Ursini and Silver. These case studies and thematic analyses, from White Heat to the remake of Scarface to "The Sopranos," complete the anthology.
Download or read book British Crime Cinema written by Steve Chibnall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading writers on British popular film, this book includes interviews with key directors Mike Hodges (Get Carter) and Donald Cammel (Performance). It discusses an abundance of films including: * acclaimed recent crime films such as Shallow Grave, Shopping, and Face. * early classics like They Made Me A Fugitive * acknowledged classics such as Brighton Rock and The Long Good Friday * 50s seminal works including The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers.
Download or read book Dreams Dead Ends written by Jack Shadoian and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this classic study provides a reintroduction to some of the major films and theoretical considerations of film noir and gangster films in twentieth-century America. Ranging from Little Caesar (1930) to Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), Shadoian guides the reader through twenty classic movies of the genre. His approach is to use brief introductions to introduce distinct eras of the gangster films in each of seven chapters. Moving chronologically, he offers plot synopses and close readings of such definitive examples as Bonnie and Clyde, The Public Enemy, D.O.A. and The Godfather, each accompanied by photographs and author's critiques. Compenendia of facts on each film are also provided. This updated version looks a newer films as well as how the genre has moved into the new century. Appendices look at the movie Criss Cross as an epitome of the genre while others offer different lists of gangster films, including the author's top fourteen alltime, fifty post-Godfather films worth seeing, and fifty vintage films.
Download or read book Mathieu Kassovitz written by Will Higbee and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathieu Kassovitz is arguably the most important filmmaker to have emerged from French cinema in the past two decades. As a director, his work often engages with highly controversial socio-political issues whilst still managing to attract and connect with a popular audience – and, above all, with a youth audience. He is also one of the few contemporary French filmmakers who is capable of productively engaging with Hollywood, in terms of cinematic style, narrative and genre, yet still retaining his own identity as a French filmmaker. In addition to his directorial successes, Kassovitz has also achieved considerable critical and commercial success in France as a screen actor. His films – whether directed by or acted in, or both – show an astonishing variety, from his early Métisse (1993), his break-through, La Haine (1995) through to Jeunet's Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2000), Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopatre (2002) and Gothika (2003). Will Higbee's study is the first to explore of one of the most fascinating characters in French cinema.
Download or read book Dreams and Dead Ends written by Jack Shadoian and published by . This book was released on 1979-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A substantial consideration of a film genre that is a distinctive part of American popular art. This is the most substantial consideration of a film genre that is a distinctive part of American popular art. It brings a range of theoretical interpretation and critical analysis to the task, and the writing is in sharp focus, free of both academic dead weight and in-group jargon. The aim is to elucidate, not to mystify, and to widen, rather than narrow, the context of our involvement and understanding. Dreams and Dead Ends provides a framework of explanation for a group of films that viewers have found puzzling, disturbing, compelling, and at times alarming. Through detailed discussion, it argues the sources of their power and persuasiveness. The book will appeal to thoughtful viewers/readers who wish to extend their sense of the genre's nature and significance, and of how and why it has exerted so durable a hold on our imagination.Shadoian seeks to define the character and boundaries of the gangster/crime genre, but not through a doctrinaire approach that artificially limits its scope. Indeed, tracing the genre from the early 1930's to the 1970's, much of the emphasis is on the way the genre has changed and evolved and been colored by the changing American mood and condition over succeeding decades. Moreover, individual films are seen and discussed on their own terms, which allows the author to highlight the distinctive qualities that give each film a life of its own within the generic framework.These 18 films were chosen by the author in part to show the variety and versatility of the genre; among them are (in Shadoian's words from the Preface) "A films and B films, films celebrated and films maudit, classic films that had to be written on and curiosities that otherwise seemed destined to a premature oblivion, each a serviceable index to the directions the genre was taking at the time of its release, and each proving substantial upon reviewing." The author is especially provocative in writing about audience identification with the gangster/criminals portrayed in the gloom of the theater. Without overworking the analogy, he traces the connection between our being "spellbound in darkness" by the underworld and those unconscious human urges to throw off societal restrictions, desires that are released in dreams but are seen to be dead-end fantasies in the harsh light of next morning's realities and practical imperatives. The films are both liberating dreams and sobering truths. They reflect both American optimism and despair. Dreams and Dead Ends gives proper critical attention to the films of the genre as works of art and also as conscious and unconscious revelations of the underside of American society and the darker aspects he individual psyche.Films discussed: Little Caesar (1930); The Public Enemy (1931); High Sierra (1941); The Killers (1946); Kiss of Death (1947); Force of Evil (1947); Gun Crazy (1949); D.O.A. (1949); White Heat (1949); Pickup on South Street (1953); 99 River Street (1953); The Phoenix City Story (1955); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Point Blank (1967); The Godfather (1972); and Godfather II (1975).
Download or read book A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations on the Subject of Film 1916 1979 written by Raymond Fielding and published by Houston, Texas: University Fim Association. This book was released on 1979 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Born to Lose written by Eugene Rosow and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 2138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Gangster Cinema written by F. Mason and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 contemporary period and by placing them in the context of cultural and cinematic issues such as masculinity, consumerism and technology. With a close examination of many films from Scarface and Public Enemy to Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction , this book provides a fascinating insight into a topical and popular subject.
