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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: companion to the gangster film
  title info:
    title: Gangster film
  name:
    name part: Larke-Walsh, George S.
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 531 pages)
  abstract: A Companion to the Gangster Film presents a comprehensive overview of the newest scholarship on the contemporary gangster film genre as a global phenomenon. While gangster films are one of America's most popular genres, gangster movies appear in every film industry across the world. With contributions from an international panel of experts, A Companion to the Gangster Film explores the popularity of gangster films across three major continents, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The authors acknowledge the gangster genre's popularity and examine the reasons supporting its appeal to twenty-first century audiences across the globe.--publisher.
  table of 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 : politica…
  note: edited by George S. Larke-Walsh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  subject:
    topic: Gangster films
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN1995.9.G3 C66 2019
  classification: 791.43/6556
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    title info:
      title: Companion to the gangster film
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018
    identifier: (DLC) 2018009794
  identifier: 9781119041733
  identifier: 1119041732
  identifier: 9781119041757
  identifier: 1119041759
  identifier: 9781119041740
  identifier: 1119041740
  identifier: 9781119041665
  identifier: 2018029387
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180619
    record change date: 20260214201359.6
    record identifier: in00004683066
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng