Literature

Public Enemies, Public Heroes

Management No. BFM010499

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Contents: List of Illustrations ⅸ Acknowledgments ⅺ Introduction Screening Crime in the USA An Undervalued Symbiosis = 1 1 The Gangster's Silent Backdrop Contesting Victorian Uplift and the Culture of Prohibition 19 2 The Enemy Goes Public Voicing the Cultural Other in the Early 1930s Talking Gangster Film = 39 3 Manhattan Melodrama's "Art of the Weak" Tactics of Survival and Dissent in the Post-Prohibition Gangster Film = 66 4 Ganging Up against the Gangster Censorship, the Movies, and Cultural Transformation, 1915-1935 = 83 5 Crime, Inc. Beyond the Ghetto/Beyond the Majors in the Postwar Gangster Film 115 6 Screening Crime the Liberal Consensus Way Postwar Transformations in the Production Code = 144 7 The "Un-American" Film Art Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, and the Political Significance of Film Noir's German Connection = 186 Epilogue From Gangster to Gangsta Against a Certain Tendency of Film Theory and History = 221 Appendix Production Code Administration Film Analysis Forms, 1934-1957 = 227 Bibliography = 241 Film Index = 251 Subject Index = 255