San Francisco Public Library

Mob culture, hidden histories of American gangster film, edited by Lee Grieveson, Esther Sonnet, and Peter Stanfield

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Mob culture

bibliography

edited by Lee Grieveson, Esther Sonnet, and Peter Stanfield

hidden histories of American gangster film

1: Producing crime: gangs and the gangster film -- Gangsters and governance in the silent era / Lee Grieveson -- Why boys go wrong : gangsters, hoodlums, and the natural history of delinquent careers / Richard Maltby -- Gang busters : the Kefauver Crime Committee and the syndicate films of the 1950s / Ronald W. Wilson -- 2: Gangster transgressions: gender and sexuality -- Ladies love brutes : reclaiming female pleasures in the lost history of Hollywood gangster cycles, 1929-1931 / Esther Sonnet -- A gunsel is being beaten : gangster masculinity and the homoerotics of the crime film, 1941-1942 / Gaylyn Studlar -- Mother Barker : film star and Public Enemy No. 1 / Mary Elizabeth Strunk -- "Good evening gentlemen, can I check your hats please?" : masculinity, dress, and the retro gangster cycles of the 1990s / Esther Sonnet and Peter Stanfield -- Waddaya lookin' at? : re-reading the gangster film through The sopranos / Martha P. Nochimson -- 3: "Other" gangsters: race, politics, and the gangster film -- Black hands and white hearts : Southern Italian immigrants, crime, and race in early American cinema / Giorgio Bertellini -- "American like chop suey" : invocations of gangsters in Chinatown, 1920-1935 / Peter Stanfield -- The underworld films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper : toward a genealogy of the Black screen gangster / Jonathan Munby -- Walking the streets : Black gangsters and the "abandoned city" in the 1970s blaxploitation cycle / Peter Stanfield