A companion to the gangster film [electronic resource] / edited by George S. Larke-Walsh.
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc./Blackwell,
2018.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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 90s 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.