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A companion to the gangster film

Title
A companion to the gangster film / edited by George S. Larke-Walsh.
ISBN
9781119041665
111904166X
9781119043294
1119043298
9781119041740
Publication
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xv, 531 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Other formats
Online version: Companion to the gangster film. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 05, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Mary Pickford meets the mafia / Amy Borden
Tough talk : early sound and the development of American gangster film vernacular, 1928-1930 / Ron Wilson
How good boys go bad : the changing face of the gangster film in America / John E. Petty
Making of a mobster : from myth to the crystallization of the mafia archetype in 1950s and 1960s Italian and Italian American film / Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Moral ambiguities : the Frenchness of new Hollywood gangster families / Isolde Vanhee
The assassin's economics of killing : money, honour and the market of murder / Fran Mason
The 1990s Hollywood gangster : generic reflections and deflections / Karine Hildenbrand
"Based on a true story" : public enemies and the biographical gangster film / Stephen Gaunson
The gangster in Hispanic American cinema / Philip Swanson
The Jamaican gangster film : badman, rude boys and dons / Imruh Bakari
When criticism meets gangster films : the Spiv cycle as oppositional aesthetics in post-war Britain / Ana Rodriguez Granell
The patriarchal figure in the 1950s French gangster film : legendary men from a recent past / Thomas Pillard
Mafia, mobility, and capitalism in Italy circa 1960 / Luca Peretti
Gangsters in Turkish cinema / Hülya Önal
Sun-drenched corruption : organized crime, global capItalism and the Mediterranean coast in recent Spanish cinema / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
The Russia they have lost : Russian gangster as a nostalgic hero / Lioudmila Federova
A hint of lavender : the gay gangster in British crime cinema / Paul Elliott
The modern British gangster film / Tom Ryall
Death and duty : the onscreen yakuza / Elayne Chaplin
Yakuza no onnatachi : women in Japanese gangster cinema / Laura Treglia
Impotent liberation : post-martial law Taiwanese gangster films / Dominique Liao
Ruling the men's den : crime, outrage and Indian women gang leaders / Sony Jalarajan Raj, Rohini Sreekumar & Nithin Kalorth
Tsui Hark's film workshop : political cues in the gangster film 1986-1989 / James Fenwick
The Godfather legacy : homage and allusion in transnational cinema / George S. Larke-Walsh
Gangsta gangsta : Hong Kong triad films, 1986-2015 / Valerie Soe
Politics, social order and hierarchies in post-millenium Hong Kong cinema / Kelvin Ke Jinde
Jung Doo-hong and the gangster body : Kkangpae in contemporary South Korean cinema / Se Young Kim.
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