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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Shadoian, Jack. Dreams & dead ends. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 (DLC) 2001035081 (OCoLC)46683559 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jack Shadoian |
ISBN: | 9780198032632 0198032633 9780195142921 0195142926 9780195142914 0195142918 0195302753 9780195302752 9786610531271 6610531277 1280531274 9781280531279 1602567999 9781602567993 0199881707 9780199881703 |
Language Note: | English. |
OCLC Number: | 59155687 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 376 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 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. |
Series Title: | OUP E-Books. |
Other Titles: | Dreams and dead ends |
Responsibility: | Jack Shadoian. |
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Praise for the previous edition: Dreams and Dead Ends is quite a remarkable book. One would expect a formal, academic theorist to discuss the great and near-great American gangster movies in terms much duller than the films themselves. Not here, for Mr. Shadoian's essays are aggressive, readable, and often profound. He has a fine, firm grasp of photography, composition, editing, direction, acting, and screenwriting. His cultural and sociological observations arebrilliant. He traces the development of gangster films from Little Caesar to Point Blank with sure-footed finesse, and ends up by admitting that, as the latest cycle has only just begun, predictions regarding its course would be presumptuous and foolish. Recommended. * Media Review Digest * Read more...
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- Gangster films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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