Dreams and Dead Ends : The American Gangster Film.
Jack. Shadoian
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (397 pages)
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| Utgave | 2nd ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Golden Age: The "Classic" Gangster Film -- Little Caesar (1930) -- The Public Enemy (1931) -- 2 Dark Transformations: The Descent into Noir -- High Sierra (1941) -- The Killers (1946) -- 3 The Genre's "Enlightenment": The Stress and Strain for Affirmation -- Kiss of Death (1947) -- Force of Evil (1948) -- Gun Crazy (1949) -- 4 Going Gray and Going Crazy: Disequilibrium and Change at Midcentury -- D.O.A. (1949) -- White Heat (1949) -- 5 Focus on Feeling: "Seeing" through the Fifties -- Pickup on South Street (1953) -- 99 River Street (1953), The Phenix City Story (1955), The Brothers Rico (1957) -- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- 6 Contemporary Colorations: The Modernist Perspective -- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) -- Point Blank (1967) -- The Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1975), and After -- 7 Toward the 21st Century: Frenzies and Despairs -- Once upon a Time in America (1984) -- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) -- Appendix 1 Criss Cross: One to "Watch Over and Over" -- Appendix 2 Gangster/Crime/Noir/ Post-Noir: The Top 14 -- Appendix 3 50 Post-Godfather Crime/Noir Films Worth a Look -- Appendix 4 Aging Well: 50 Vintage Gangster/Crime/Noir Films -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.. - Dreams and Dead Ends provides a compelling history of the twentieth-century American gangster film. Beginning with Little Caesar (1930) and ending with Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (1995), Jack Shadoian adroitly analyzes twenty notable examples of the crime film genre. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films--including The Public Enemy, D.O.A., Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather--that best define and represent each period in the development of the American crime film. Richly illustrated with more than seventy film stills, Dreams and Dead Ends details the evolution of the genre through insightful and precise considerations of cinematography, characterization, and narrative style. This updated edition includes new readings of three additional movies--Once Upon a Time in America, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, and Criss Cross--and brings this clear and lively discussion of the history of the gangster film to the end of the twentieth century.
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| ISBN | 9780198032632
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