Gangster Film Reader by Alain Silver
In the 1930s the gangster film in the United States coincided with a very real and very sensational gangsterism at large in American society. Little Caesar (1931) The Public Enemy (1931) and Scarface (1932) borrowed liberally from the newspapers and books of the era. With the release of just these three motion pictures in barely more than a year's time Hollywood quintessentially defined the genre. The characters the situations and the icons from fast cars and tommy-guns to fancy fedoras and fancier molls established the audience expectations associated with the gangster film that remain in force to this day. As with their Film Noir Reader series using both reprints of seminal articles and new pieces editors Silver and Ursini have assembled a group of essays that presents an exhaustive overview of this still vital genre. Reprints of work by such well-known film historians as Robin Wood Andrew Sarris Carlos Clarens Paul Schrader and Stuart Kaminsky explore the evolution of the gangster film through the 1970s and The Godfather . Parts 2 and 3 comprise two dozen newer articles most of them written expressly for this volume by Ursini and Silver. These case studies and thematic analyses from White Heat to the remake of Scarface to The Sopranos complete the anthology.-
Harpo Speaks!
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Accents
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100 Lessons in Classical Ballet
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Great Singers on Great Singing
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Montgomery Clift
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High Times Hard Times
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Fiddler on the Roof
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Film Noir Reader
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Year of the King
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The Monologue Audition
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Jean Arthur
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D.W. Griffith
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Detours and Lost Highways
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Mitchum
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Film Noir Reader 2
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The Art of Looking in Hitchcock's Rear Window
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Only Victims
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Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Around
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In and Out of Character
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The Season
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Classes in Classical Ballet
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A Field Guide to Actor Training
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Songwriting
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The Four Voices of Man
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Acting and Singing with Archetypes
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Horror Film Reader
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Testimony
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The Theater of Heiner Muller
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Light on the Subject
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The Perfect Monologue
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On the Line
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Producing Theatre
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50 Classic Motion Pictures
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Ready for My Close-Up!
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Mingus/Mingus
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Acting With Adler
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Kurt Weill: On Stage
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The Science Fiction Film Reader
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Stages
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Heaven and Hell to Play With
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100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember
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I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done
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Making Musicals
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Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas
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Harold Prince
ALAIN SILVER has authored Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles; L.A. Noir; The Noir Style. He is co-editor of Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference; and Film Noir Readers 1, 2, 3, and 4. His articles have appeared in Film Comment, Movie, Literature/Film Quarterly, Wide Angle, and the Los Angeles Times.
JAMES URSINI is the author, co-author, and co-editor of over 20 books on film history, including The Vampire Film and The Film Noir Reader series (with Alain Silver) and his latest title with Dominique Mainon, The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen. He has a doctorate from UCLA and teaches in, Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780879103323 |
| ISBN 10 | 0879103329 |
| Title | Gangster Film Reader |
| Author | Alain Silver |
| Series | Limelight |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Limelight Editions |
| Year published | 2007-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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