Mob Culture de Lee Grieveson

Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film

Lee Grieveson

Esther Sonnet

Peter Stanfield

The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical films such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and The Godfather trilogy, resulting in a limited and distorted understanding of the compelling presence and persistence of the gangster. Mob Culture presents a detailed examination of the ideological richness of the gangster film throughout Hollywood's production history, from the silent period to the present.Mob Culture explores how the gangster figure has been connected to various cultural and racial identities, how issues of gender and sexuality are frequently highlighted by the genre, and how film criticism has drawn on eugenics, sociology and psychology to try to explain and contain the gangster. An ideal guide to both the film history and the critical literature, Mob Culture redefines the American gangster at the movies.

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Express

Paperback (1)

173^.50 lei 6-8 săpt.

Bloomsbury Publishing – 31 mai 2005

173^.50 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

655^.05 lei 6-8 săpt.

Bloomsbury Publishing – 31 mai 2005

655^.05 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Lee Grieveson is Director of the Graduate Programme in Film Studies at University College London and co-editor of The Silent Cinema. Esther Sonnet is Principal Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. Peter Stanfield is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury and author of Hollywood, Westerns, and the 1930s

Cuprins

I. Producing Crime: Gangs and the Gangster FilmGangsters and Governance in the Silent EraLee Grieveson, King's College, University of LondonWhy Boys Go Wrong: Gangsters, Hoodlums, and the Natural History of Delinquent Careers Richard Maltby, School of Humanities at Flinders University, South AustraliaGang Busters: The Kefauver Crime Committee and the Syndicate Films of the 1950s Ronald W. Wilson, independent scholar residing in Lawrence, Kansas II. Gangster Transgressions: Gender and SexualityLadies Love Brutes: Reclaiming Female Pleasures in the Lost History of Hollywood Gangster Cycles, 1929-1931 Esther Sonnet, University of PortsmouthA Gunsel Is Being Beaten: Gangster Masculinity and the Homoerotics of the Crime Film, 1941-1942 Gaylyn Studlar, University of Michigan, Ann ArborMother Barker: Film Star and Public Enemy No. 1 Mary Elizabeth Strunk, Syracuse University "Good Evening Gentlemen, Can I Check Your Hats Please?": Masculinity, Dress, and the Retro Gangster Cycles of the 1990s Esther Sonnet, University of Portsmouth, and Peter Stanfield, University of Kent at CanterburyWaddaya Lookin' At?: Re-reading the Gangster Film Through The Sopranos Martha P. Nochimson, Mercy College Film Studies ProgramIII. "Other" Gangsters: Race, Politics, and the Gangster FilmBlack Hands and White Hearts: Southern Italian Immigrants, Crime, and Race in Early American Cinema Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan "American Like Chop Suey": Invocations of Gangsters in Chinatown, 1920-1935Peter Stanfield, University of Kent at CanterburyThe Underworld Films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper: Toward a Genealogy of the Black Screen Gangster Jonathan Munby, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, UKWalking the Streets: Black Gangsters and the "Abandoned City" in the 1970s Blaxploitation Cycle Peter Stanfield, University of Kent at Canterbury

Recenzii

'This book does a fine job at what it sets out to do - to redefine the American gangster genre.'William Luhr, Saint Peter's College'Mob Cultures uncovers new aspects of the gangster genre, from its dress codes to its relation to government investigation, from gangsters on nickelodeon screens to HBO series, from Tong wars in Chinatown to the African American gangster in race films. Think you know the gangster genre? Read this book and discover dimensions you never dreamed of.'Tom Gunning, University of Chicago