Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil Book

Contents

List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction Screening Crime in the USA An Undervalued Symbiosis


1
The Gangster's Silent Backdrop Contesting Victorian Uplift and the Culture of Prohibition


2
The Enemy Goes Public Voicing the Cultural Other in the Early 1930s Talking Gangster Film


3
Manhattan Melodrama's “Art of the Weak” Tactics of Survival and Dissent in the Post-Prohibition Gangster Film


4
Ganging Up against the Gangster Censorship, the Movies, and Cultural Transformation, 1915–1935


5
Crime, Inc. Beyond the Ghetto/Beyond the Majors in the Postwar Gangster Film


6
Screening Crime the Liberal Consensus Way Postwar Transformations in the Production Code


7
The “Un-American” Film Art Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, and the Political Significance of Film Noir's German Connection


Epilogue From Gangster to Gangsta Against a Certain Tendency of Film Theory and History


Appendix Production Code Administration Film Analysis Forms, 1934–1957


Bibliography


Film Index


Subject Index