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Public Enemies, Public Heroes : Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Public Enemies Public Heroes Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Author: Jonathan Munby
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 devas...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226550312
ISBN-10: 0226550311
Publication Date: 3/15/1999
Pages: 271
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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