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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226550338
ISBN-13
9780226550336
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1081841
Product Key Features
Book Title
Public Enemies, Public Heroes : Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Number of Pages
271 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Film / Guides & Reviews, Film / Genres / Crime, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-022151
Dewey Decimal
791.43/655
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Screening Crime in the USA An Undervalued Symbiosis 1. The Gangster's Silent Backdrop Contesting Victorian Uplift and the Culture of Prohibition 2. The Enemy Goes Public Voicing the Cultural Other in the Early 1930s Talking Gangster Film 3. Manhattan Melodrama's "Art of the Weak" Tactics of Survival and Dissent in the Post-Prohibition Gangster Film 4. Ganging Up against the Gangster Censorship, the Movies, and Cultural Transformation, 1915-1935 5. Crime, Inc. Beyond the Ghetto/Beyond the Majors in the Postwar Gangster Film 6. Screening Crime the Liberal Consensus Way Postwar Transformations in the Production Code 7. The "Un-American" Film Art Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, and the Political Significance of Film Noir's German Connection Epilogue From Gangster to Gangsta Against a Certain Tendency of Film Theory and History Appendix Production Code Administration Film Analysis Forms, 1934-1957 Bibliography Film Index Subject Index
Synopsis
In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower-class desires to "make it" in an America dominated by Anglo-Saxon Protestant ideals and devastated by the Great Depression. By the late 1940s, however, their focus shifted to the problems of a culture maladjusting to a new peacetime sociopolitical order governed by corporate capitalism. The gangster no longer challenged the establishment; the issue was not "making it," but simply "making do." Combining film analysis with archival material from the Production Code Administration (Hollywood's self-censoring authority), Munby shows how the industry circumvented censure, and how its altered gangsters (influenced by European filmmakers) fueled the infamous inquisitions of Hollywood in the postwar '40s and '50s by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Ultimately, this provocative study suggests that we rethink our ideas about crime and violence in depictions of Americans fighting against the status quo.
LC Classification Number
PN1995.9.G3M86 1999
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