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Little Caesar / edited with an introd. by Gerald Peary.
LIBRA PN1997 .L589
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faragoh, Francis Edwards.
- Series:
- Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series
- Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 187 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : Published for the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research by the University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.
- Summary:
- "Little Caesar," a 1931 Hollywood gangster classic, is viewed in revivals today with nearly as much audience enthusiasm as it enjoyed a half-century ago, in the depths of the Great Depression. In general, the Hollywood film industry responded to the dark economic conditions of the 1930s with escapist and non-topical films. The fascinating exception was the gangster film, through which the studios joined in the debate over the spiritual and economic health of the nation. "Little Caesar," considered by many to be an architype of the genre, is one of the most memorable dramatizations of the discontent and alienation, the deep anxiety and hostility shared by millions of Americans during those dark years.
- Notes:
- "Screenplay by Francis Edwards Faragoh from the novel by W. R. Burnett."
- Bibliography: pages 27-28.
- ISBN:
- 0299084507 :
- OCLC:
- 6864728
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