Public Enemies, Public Heroes

Name: Public Enemies, Public Heroes
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226550312
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Screening the Gangster from "Little Caesar" to "Touch of Evil"

Autor: Jonathan Munby

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: University of Chicago Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství

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In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and h...

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Autor

Jonathan Munby

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

1999

Stránek

276

EAN

9780226550312

Enbook ID

04547656

Vydavatel

University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

660

Rozměry

154 x 278 x 26

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In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower-class desires to "make it" in an America dominated by Anglo-Saxon Protestant ideals and devastated by the Great Depression. By the late 1940s, however, their focus shifted to the problems of a culture maladjusting to a new peacetime sociopolitical order governed by corporate capitalism. The gangster no longer challenged the establishment; the issue was not "making it," but simply "making do". Combining film analysis with archival material from the Production Code Administration (Hollywood's self-censoring authority), Munby shows how the industry circumvented censure, and how its altered gangsters (influenced by European filmmakers) fueled the infamous inquisitions of Hollywood in the postwar 40s and 50s by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Ultimately, this study suggests that one rethinks ideas about crime and violence in depictions of Americans fighting against the status quo.

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