Mob culture : hidden histories of the American gangster film / edited by Lee Grieveson, Esther Sonnet, and Peter Stanfield.

Other author Grieveson, Lee, 1969-
Other author Sonnet, Esther, 1961-
Other author Stanfield, Peter, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2005.
Descriptionix, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Gangsters and governance in the silent era / Lee Grieveson -- Why boys go wrong : gangsters, hoodlums, and the natural history of delinquent careers / Richard Maltby -- Gang busters : the Kefauver Crime Committee and the syndicate films of the 1950s / Ronald W. Wilson -- Ladies love brutes : reclaiming female pleasures in the lost history of Hollywood gangster cycles, 1929-1931 / Esther Sonnet -- A gunsel is being beaten : gangster masculinity and the homoerotics of the crime film, 1941-1942 / Gaylyn Studlar -- Mother Barker : film star and Public Enemy No. 1 / Mary Elizabeth Strunk -- "Good evening gentlemen; can I check your hats please?" : masculinity, dress, and the retro gangster cycles of the 1990s / Esther Sonnet and Peter Stanfield -- Waddaya lookin' at? : rereading the gangster film through The Sopranos / Martha P. Nochimson -- Black hands and white hearts : Southern Italian immigrants, crime, and race in early American cinema / Giorgio Bertellini -- "American as chop suey" : invocations of gangsters in Chinatown, 1920-1936 / Peter Stanfield -- The underworld films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper : toward a genealogy of the Black screen gangster / Jonathan Munby -- Walking the streets : Black gangsters and the "abandoned city" in the 1970s blaxploitation cycle / Peter Stanfield.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004011757
ISBN0813535565 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813535573 (pbk. : alk. paper)