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Public Enemies, Public Heroes

Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil

Public Enemies, Public Heroes( )
Author: Munby, Jonathan
ISBN:978-0-226-55033-6
Publication Date:Mar 1999
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $54.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:271
Detailed Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Crime
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.62 x 2.27 x 0.17 cm
Book Weight:0.416 Kilograms



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