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Mob Culture - Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film (Hardcover)
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Mob Culture - Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film (Hardcover)
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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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