Public Enemies, Public Heroes

Name: Public Enemies, Public Heroes
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226550336
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Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil

Szerző: Jonathan Munby

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: The University of Chicago Press

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

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Szerző

Jonathan Munby

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1999

oldal

271

EAN

9780226550336

ISBN

0226550338

Enbook ID

04547657

Kiadó

The University of Chicago Press

Súly

430

Méretek

138 x 225 x 20

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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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