03659nam 2200637Ia 450 991045945330332120200520144314.01-282-71075-397866127107590-226-55034-610.7208/9780226550343(CKB)2670000000035527(EBL)570554(OCoLC)655853838(SSID)ssj0000426422(PQKBManifestationID)12173265(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426422(PQKBWorkID)10388751(PQKB)10204044(MiAaPQ)EBC570554(DE-B1597)535716(OCoLC)1135565315(DE-B1597)9780226550343(Au-PeEL)EBL570554(CaPaEBR)ebr10408900(CaONFJC)MIL271075(EXLCZ)99267000000003552719980508d1999 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrPublic heroes[electronic resource] screening the gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of evil /Jonathan MunbyChicago University of Chicago Pressc19991 online resource (277 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-55033-8 0-226-55031-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction. Screening Crime in the USA --1.. The Gangster's Silent Backdrop --2. The Enemy Goes Public --3. Manhattan Melodrama's "Art of the Weak" --4. Ganging Up against the Gangster --5. Crime, Inc. --6. Screening Crime the Liberal Consensus Way --7. The "Un-American" Film Art --Epilogue. From Gangster to Gangsta --Appendix. Production Code Administration Film Analysis Forms,1934-1957 --Bibliography --Film Index --Subject IndexIn 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 1930's, 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 1940's, 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 '50's by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Ultimately, this provocative study suggests that we rethink our ideas about crime and violence in depictions of Americans fighting against the status quo.Gangster filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismCrime filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismElectronic books.Gangster filmsHistory and criticism.Crime filmsHistory and criticism.791.43/655Munby Jonathan856740MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459453303321Public heroes1913429UNINA