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050 00 $aPN1995.9.G3$bC5 1997
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100 1 $aClarens, Carlos.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79062946
245 10 $aCrime movies /$cCarlos Clarens ; [updated] with an afterword by Foster Hirsch.
246 0 $iSubtitle on cover:$aIllustrated history of the gangster genre from D.W. Griffith to Pulp Fiction
250 $a1st Da Capo Press ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDa Capo Press,$c1997.
300 $a373 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: New York : Norton, 1980.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [361]) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tCharacters in Search of a Genre --$g2.$tThe Nights of Chicago --$g3.$tThe Morning After --$g4.$tThe First Crusade --$g5.$tA New Deal for the Gangster --$g6.$tAll Quiet on the Home Front --$g7.$tShades of Noir --$g8.$tThe Syndicate --$g9.$tBonnie, Clyde, and the Kids --$g10.$tAll in the Family --$g11.$tThe Techniques of Violence --$tAfterword /$rFoster Hirsch.
520 $aCrime movies are as old as filmmaking itself. They embody the American nightmare, functioning both as a mirror of society and a tool for educating the public about its enemies. In this history of the genre Carlos Clarens gives us a mini-history of crime American-style.
520 8 $aFrom New York's Biograph Studios, where raw violence was introduced to celluloid immortality, to today's multi-million-dollar celebrations of blood and power, Crime Movies shows us the whole picture: the unchanging cast of characters (the gangster hero, swaggering, charming, suspicious; the stoolpigeon or strikebreaker; the moll); the stars (James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, George Raft, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Richard Widmark); the censorship battles, political pressure, and public outcry. Movies such as Intolerance, Underworld, Little Caesar, Public Enemy, Kiss of Death, On the Waterfront, Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, Goodfellas, and Reservoir Dogs have fascinated America throughout the century.
520 8 $aCrime Movies illuminates these and hundreds of others, and details the filmmaking strategies Hollywood has adopted to deal with the controversial yet profitable and enduring subject of American criminality.
650 0 $aGangster films$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117766
700 1 $aHirsch, Foster.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80044598
852 00 $bmil$hPN1995.9.G3$iC5 1997
852 00 $bglx$hPN1995.9.G3$iC5 1997