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Dreams and dead ends : the American gangster film / Jack Shadoian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shadoian, Jack, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gangster films--United States--History and criticism.
- Gangster films.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 376 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This work provides a history of the 20th-century American gangster film. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films that best define and exemplify each period in the development of the American crime film.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT, 1977.
- Previously issued in print: 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772386-1
- 0-19-803263-3
- 1-60256-799-9
- 1-280-53127-4
- 0-19-514291-8
- 0-19-988170-7
- OCLC:
- 476022909
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