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Author:   Lee Grieveson ,  Esther Sonnet ,  Peter Stanfield ,  Esther Sonnet
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780813535579

ISBN 10:   0813535573
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   28 April 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Gangsters and governance in the silent era / Lee Grieveson Why boys go wrong : gangsters, hoodlums, and the natural history of delinquent careers / Richard Maltby Gang busters : the Kefauver Crime Committee and the syndicate films of the 1950s / Ronald W. Wilson Ladies love brutes : reclaiming female pleasures in the lost history of Hollywood gangster cycles, 1929-1931 / Esther Sonnet A gunsel is being beaten : gangster masculinity and the homoerotics of the crime film, 1941-1942 / Gaylyn Studlar Mother Barker : film star and Public Enemy No. 1 / Mary Elizabeth Strunk ""Good evening gentlemen, can I check your hats please?"" : masculinity, dress, and the retro gangster cycles of the 1990s / Esther Sonnet and Peter Stanfield Waddaya lookin' at? : re-reading the gangster film through The sopranos / Martha P. Nochimson Black hands and white hearts : Southern Italian immigrants, crime, and race in early American cinema / Giorgio Bertellini ""American like chop suey"" : invocations of gangsters in Chinatown, 1920-1935 / Peter Stanfield The underworld films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper : toward a genealogy of the Black screen gangster / Jonathan Munby Walking the streets : Black gangsters and the ""abandoned city"" in the 1970s blaxploitation cycle / Peter Stanfield

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Lee Grieveson is the director of the graduate program in film studies at University College London and the author of Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America. Esther Sonnet is a principal lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and has published numerous articles on contemporary film, gender, and sexuality. Peter Stanfield is a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the author of Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail.

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