Mob culture : hidden histories of American gangster film
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Mob culture : hidden histories of American gangster film
Rutgers University Press, c2005
- alk. paper
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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Size of pbk., ISBN:9780813535579: 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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