Mob Culture

Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film
Herausgeber: Grieveson, Lee; Stanfield, Peter; Sonnet, Esther

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780813535579
• ISBN-10: 0813535573
• Artikelnr.: 22379605

Autorenporträt

Grieveson, Lee

Inhaltsangabe

Gangsters and governance in the silent era / Lee Grieveson
Why boys go wrong : gangsters, hoodlums, and the natural history of
delinquent careers / Richard Maltby
Gang busters : the Kefauver Crime Committee and the syndicate films of the
1950s / Ronald W. Wilson
Ladies love brutes : reclaiming female pleasures in the lost history of
Hollywood gangster cycles, 1929-1931 / Esther Sonnet
A gunsel is being beaten : gangster masculinity and the homoerotics of the
crime film, 1941-1942 / Gaylyn Studlar
Mother Barker : film star and Public Enemy No. 1 / Mary Elizabeth Strunk
"Good evening gentlemen, can I check your hats please?" : masculinity,
dress, and the retro gangster cycles of the 1990s / Esther Sonnet and Peter
Stanfield
Waddaya lookin' at? : re-reading the gangster film through The sopranos /
Martha P. Nochimson
Black hands and white hearts : Southern Italian immigrants, crime, and race
in early American cinema / Giorgio Bertellini
"American like chop suey" : invocations of gangsters in Chinatown,
1920-1935 / Peter Stanfield
The underworld films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper : toward a
genealogy of the Black screen gangster / Jonathan Munby
Walking the streets : Black gangsters and the "abandoned city" in the 1970s
blaxploitation cycle / Peter Stanfield