Dreams and Dead Ends
Subtitle: The American Gangster Film
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780195142914
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; 20th century; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Gangster films; History and criticism; United States
First sentence: The gangster-crime film took root as long ago as Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) and then struggled in unfertilized soil through to the end of the twenties.