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| Genre/Form: | Ressources Internet Criticism, interpretation, etc Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme) Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme) Livres numériques |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Shadoian, Jack. Dreams & dead ends. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003 (DLC) 2001035081 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jack Shadoian |
| ISBN: | 9786610531271 6610531277 |
| OCLC Number: | 300414384 |
| Notes: | Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 3 oct. 2008). |
| Description: | 1 ressource en ligne (xv, 376 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents: | 1. Golden Age : The "Classic" Gangster Film -- Little Caesar (1930) -- Public Enemy (1931) -- 2. Dark Transformations : The Descent into Noir -- High Sierra (1941) -- Killers (1946) -- 3. Genre's "Enlightenment" : The Stress and Strain for Affirmation -- Kiss of Death (1947) -- Force of Evil (1948) -- Gun Crazy (1949) -- 4. Going Gray and Going Crazy : Disequilibrium and Change at Midcentury -- D.O.A. (1949) -- White Heat (1949) -- 5. Focus on Feeling : "Seeing" through the Fifties -- Pickup on South Street (1953) -- 99 River Street (1953), The Phenix City Story (1955), The Brothers Rico (1957) -- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- 6. Contemporary Colorations : The Modernist Perspective -- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) -- Point Blank (1967) -- Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1975), and After -- 7. Toward the 21st Century : Frenzies and Despairs -- Once upon a Time in America (1984) -- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) -- App. 1 Criss Cross : One to "Watch Over and Over" -- App. 2 Gangster/Crime/Noir/Post-Noir : The Top 14 -- App. 3 50 Post-Godfather Crime/Noir Films Worth a Look -- App. 4 Aging Well : 50 Vintage Gangster/Crime/Noir Films. |
| Other Titles: | Dreams and dead ends |
| Responsibility: | Jack Shadoian. |
Abstract:
This work provides a history of the 20th-century American gangster film. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films that best define and exemplify each period in the development of the American crime film.
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