Dreams and Dead Ends
Subtitle: The American Gangster/Crime Film
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: September 7, 1979
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780262690652
Subjects: Films, cinema; Sociology, Social Studies; General; Photography / General; Photography; Photo Techniques
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.