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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jack Shadoian |
| ISBN: | 0195142918 9780195142914 |
| OCLC Number: | 803661969 |
| Description: | XV, 376 p. : il. ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Part 1 The Golden Age: The "Classic" Gangster Film - Little Caesar (1930); The Public Enemy (1931). Part 2 Dark Transformations: The Descent Into Noir - High Sierra (1941); The Killers (1946). Part 3 The Genre's "Enlightenment": The Stress and Strain for Affirmation - Kiss of Death (1947); Force of Evil (1948); Gun Crazy (1949). Part 4 Going Gray and Going Crazy: Disequilibrium and Change at Midcentury - D.O.A. (1949); White Heat (1949). Part 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). Part 6 Contemporary Colorations: The Modernist Perspective - Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Point Blank (1967); The Godfather (1972); The Godfather II (1975). Part 7 Towards the 21st Century: Frenzies and Despairs - Once Upon a Time in America (1984); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995). Appendices: Criss Cross - "One to Watch Over and Over"; Gangster/Crime/Noir/Post-Noir - The Top 14; 50 Post-Godfather Crime/Noir Films Worth a Look; Ageing Well - 50 Vintage Gangster/Crime/Noir Films. |
| Responsibility: | Jack Shadoian. |
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