In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone
and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject
of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, novels and
Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for
Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil it
symbolized. Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a
reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans'
values, concerns and ideas about what would sell. We see efficient
criminal executives demonstrating the multifarious uses of
organization; dapper, big-spending gangsters highlighting the
promises and perils of the emerging consumer society; and gunmen
and molls guiding an uncertain public through the shifting terrain
of modern gender roles. In this study, Ruth reveals how the public
enemy provides a far-ranging critique of modern culture.
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