Mob culture
Subtitle: hidden histories of the American gangster film
By: edited by Lee Grieveson, Esther Sonnet, and Peter Stanfield.
Contributors: Grieveson, Lee, 1969-; Sonnet, Esther, 1961-; Stanfield, Peter, 1958-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780813535562; 9780813535579
Subjects: Gangster films -- United States -- History and criticism; Sex role in motion pictures; Race in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gangsters and governance in the silent era / Lee Grieveson; title: Why boys go wrong : gangsters, hoodlums, and the natural history of delinquent careers / Richard Maltby; title: Gang busters : the Kefauver Crime Committee and the syndicate films of the 1950s / Ronald W. Wilson; title: Ladies love brutes : reclaiming female pleasures in the lost history of Hollywood gangster cycles, 1929-1931 / Esther Sonnet; title: A gunsel is being beaten : gangster masculinity and the homoerotics of the crime film, 1941-1942 / Gaylyn Studlar; title: Mother Barker : film star and Public Enemy No. 1 / Mary Elizabeth Strunk; title: "Good evening gentlemen, can I check your hats please?" : masculinity, dress, and the retro gangster cycles of the 1990s / Esther Sonnet, Peter Stanfield; title: Waddaya lookin' at? : re-reading the gangster film through The sopranos / Martha P. Nochimson; title: Black hands and white hearts : Southern Italian immigrants, crime, and race in early American cinema / Giorgio Bertellini; title: "American as chop suey" : invocations of gangsters in Chinatown, 1920-1935 / Peter Stanfield; title: The underworld films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper : toward a genealogy of the Black screen gangster / Jonathan Munby; title: Walking the streets : Black gangsters and the "abandoned city" in the 1970s blaxploitation cycle / Peter Stanfield.