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Material Type: | Document |
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Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jack Shadoian |
ISBN: | 9780198032632 0198032633 9780195142921 0195142926 9780195142914 0195142918 0195302753 9780195302752 |
Accession No: | (DE-599)HEB42019469X (OCoLC)704525814 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-360) and index |
Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 376 pages) Illustrations. |
Contents: | 1. THE GOLDEN AGE; 2. DARK TRANSFORMATIONS; 3. THE GENRE'S "ENLIGHTENMENT"; 4. GOING GRAY AND GOING CRAZY; 5. FOCUS ON FEELING; 6. CONTEMPORARY COLORATIONS; 7. TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY |
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...