LEADER 04048nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910784928503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-71075-3 010 $a9786612710759 010 $a0-226-55034-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226550343 035 $a(CKB)2670000000035527 035 $a(EBL)570554 035 $a(OCoLC)655853838 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000426422 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12173265 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426422 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10388751 035 $a(PQKB)10204044 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC570554 035 $a(DE-B1597)535716 035 $a(OCoLC)1135565315 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226550343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL570554 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408900 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL271075 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000035527 100 $a19980508d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPublic heroes$b[electronic resource] $escreening the gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of evil /$fJonathan Munby 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-55033-8 311 $a0-226-55031-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Screening Crime in the USA --$t1.. The Gangster's Silent Backdrop --$t2. The Enemy Goes Public --$t3. Manhattan Melodrama's "Art of the Weak" --$t4. Ganging Up against the Gangster --$t5. Crime, Inc. --$t6. Screening Crime the Liberal Consensus Way --$t7. The "Un-American" Film Art --$tEpilogue. From Gangster to Gangsta --$tAppendix. Production Code Administration Film Analysis Forms,1934-1957 --$tBibliography --$tFilm Index --$tSubject Index 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aGangster films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCrime films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 610 $agangsters, crime, mob, hollywood, film, american dream, wealth, rags to riches, upward mobility, violence, status quo, criminals, outlaw, antihero, masculinity, power, nonfiction, noir, fritz lang, robert siodmak, survival, dissent, prohibition, censorship, production code, huac, mccarthyism, blacklisting, little caesar, touch of evil, godfather, mafia, ethnicity, immigration, popular culture, history. 615 0$aGangster films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCrime films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.43/655 700 $aMunby$b Jonathan$01463344 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784928503321 996 $aPublic heroes$93672581 997 $aUNINA