Gangster film reader

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Introduction / Alain Silver -- The Gangster as tragic hero (1948) / Robert Warshow -- Scarface (from Howard Hawks, 1968) / Robin Wood -- The Gangster film (1970) / John Baxter -- Iconography of the gangster film (from Underworld USA, 1972) / Colin McArthur -- Little Caesar and its role in the gangster film genre (1972) / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- Yakuza-eiga: A Primer (1974) / Paul Schrader -- Big funerals: The Hollywood gangster, 1927-1933 (1977) / Andrew Sarris -- Post-code gangster movies (from Gangster on the Screen, 1978) / Frank Manchel -- All in the family: The Godfather Saga (from Crime Movies, 1980) / Carlos Clarens -- A Gangster unlike the others: Gordon Wiles' The Gangster / Reynold Humphries -- White Heat: I am Cody Jarrett, Destroyer of worlds / Glenn Erickson -- The Gangster according to Aldrich / Alain Silver -- A study in ambiguity: The Godfather and the American gangster movie tradition / Geoff Fordham -- De Palma's postmodern Scarface adn the simulacrum of class / Ronald Bogue -- Yoked together by violence: Prizzi's Honor as a generic hybrid / Tricia Welsch -- Way of life: GoodFellas and Casino / Constantine Verevis -- Takeshi Kitano: Melancholy poet of the yakuza film / James Ursini -- The British gangster film / Tony Williams -- Reforming Hollywood gangsters: Crime and morality from populism to patriotism / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- A New kind of girl for a new kind of world / Dominique Mainon -- The Gangster and film noir: Themes and style / Alain Silver -- Hits, whacks, and smokes: The celluloid gangster as horror icon / Catherine Don Diego -- Fukasaku and Scorsese: Yakuzas and gangsters / Joaquin da Silva -- The Hong Kong gangster movie / Tony Williams -- Family values and feudal codes: The social politics of America's fin-de-siècle gangster / Ingrid Walker

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