Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster/Crime Film
معرفی کتاب «Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster/Crime Film» نوشتهٔ Jack Shadoian Professor of English University of Massachusetts، منتشرشده توسط نشر Oxford University Press در سال 2003. این کتاب در 8 صفحه، فرمت pdf، زبان انگلیسی ارائه شده است.
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); 6. CONTEMPORARY COLORATIONS; The Modernist Perspective; Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Point Blank (1967); The Godfather (1972); The Godfather II (1975); 7. TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY; Frenzies & 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
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. 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 di of the history of the gangster film to the end of the twentieth century. Dreams and Dead Ends provides a compelling history of the twentieth-century American gangster film. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films that best define and exemplify each period in the development of the American crime film. This work provides a history of the 20th-century American gangster film. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films that best define and exemplify each period in the development of the American crime film The gangster-crime film took root as long ago as Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) and then struggled in unfertilized soil through to the end of the twenties. Jack Shadoian. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 355-360) And Index.
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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. 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 di of the history of the gangster film to the end of the twentieth century. Dreams and Dead Ends provides a compelling history of the twentieth-century American gangster film. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films that best define and exemplify each period in the development of the American crime film. This work provides a history of the 20th-century American gangster film. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films that best define and exemplify each period in the development of the American crime film The gangster-crime film took root as long ago as Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) and then struggled in unfertilized soil through to the end of the twenties. Jack Shadoian. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 355-360) And Index.