Public Enemies, Public Heroes - Screening the Gangster From Little Caesar to Touch of Evil

Klappentext List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionScreening Crime in the USAAn Undervalued Symbiosis1. The Gangster's Silent BackdropContesting Victorian Uplift and the Culture of Prohibition2. The Enemy Goes PublicVoicing the Cultural Other in the Early 1930s Talking Gangster Film3. Manhattan Melodrama's "Art of the Weak"Tactics of Survival and Dissent in the Post-Prohibition Gangster Film4. Ganging Up against the GangsterCensorship! the Movies! and Cultural Transformation! 1915-19355. Crime! Inc.Beyond the Ghetto/Beyond the Majors in the Postwar Gangster Film6. Screening Crime the Liberal Consensus WayPostwar Transformations in the Production Code7. The "Un-American" Film ArtRobert Siodmak! Fritz Lang! and the Political Significance of Film Noir's German ConnectionEpilogueFrom Gangster to GangstaAgainst a Certain Tendency of Film Theory and HistoryAppendixProduction Code Administration Film Analysis Forms! 1934-1957BibliographyFilm IndexSubject Index Zusammenfassung A study of Hollywood gangster films. This book examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Combining film analysis with archival material! the study shows how the industry circumvented censure.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Munby, Munby Jonathan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.1999
• EAN: 9780226550336
• ISBN: 978-0-226-55033-6
• No. of pages: 271
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism