A companion to the gangster film / edited by George S. Larke-Walsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Larke-Walsh, George S., 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gangster films--History and criticism.

Gangster films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 531 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2019.

Summary:

A Companion to the Gangster Film presents a comprehensive overview of the newest scholarship on the contemporary gangster film genre as a global phenomenon. While gangster films are one of America’s most popular genres, gangster movies appear in every film industry across the world. With contributions from an international panel of experts, A Companion to the Gangster Film explores the popularity of gangster films across three major continents, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The authors acknowledge the gangster genre’s popularity and examine the reasons supporting its appeal to twenty-first century audiences across the globe.--publisher.

Contents:

Mary Pickford meets the mafia / Amy Borden

Tough talk : early sound and the development of American gangster film vernacular, 1928-1930 / Ron Wilson

How good boys go bad : the changing face of the gangster film in America / John E. Petty

Making of a mobster : from myth to the crystallization of the mafia archetype in 1950s and 1960s Italian and Italian American film / Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

Moral ambiguities : the Frenchness of new Hollywood gangster families / Isolde Vanhee

The assassin's economics of killing : money, honour and the market of murder / Fran Mason

The 90s Hollywood gangster : generic reflections and deflections / Karine Hildenbrand

"Based on a true story" : public enemies and the biographical gangster film / Stephen Gaunson

The gangster in Hispanic American cinema / Philip Swanson

The Jamaican gangster film : badman, rude boys and dons / Imruh Bakari

When criticism meets gangster films : the Spiv cycle as oppositional aesthetics in post-war Britain / Ana Rodriguez Granell

The patriarchal figure in the 1950s French gangster film : legendary men from a recent past / Thomas Pillard

Mafia, mobility, and capitalism in Italy circa 1960 / Luca Peretti

Gangsters in Turkish cinema / Hülya Önal

Sun-drenched corruption : organized crime, global capItalism and the Mediterranean coast in recent Spanish cinema / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega

The Russia they have lost : Russian gangster as a nostalgic hero / Lioudmila Federova

A hint of lavender : the gay gangster in British crime cinema / Paul Elliott

The modern British gangster film / Tom Ryall

Death and duty : the onscreen yakuza / Elayne Chaplin

Yakuza no onnatachi : women in Japanese gangster cinema / Laura Treglia

Impotent liberation : post-martial law Taiwanese gangster films / Dominique Liao

Ruling the men's den : crime, outrage and Indian women gang leaders / Sony Jalarajan Raj, Rohini Sreekumar & Nithin Kalorth

Tsui Hark's film workshop : political cues in the gangster film 1986-1989 / James Fenwick

The Godfather legacy : homage and allusion in transnational cinema / George S. Larke-Walsh

Gangsta gangsta : Hong Kong triad films, 1986-2015 / Valerie Soe

Politics, social order and hierarchies in post-millenium Hong Kong cinema / Kelvin Ke Jinde

Jung Doo-hong and the gangster body : kkangpae in contemporary South Korean cinema / Se Young Kim.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-04174-0

1-119-04173-2

1-119-04175-9

OCLC:

1042082868