Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film

by Lee Grieveson (Editor), Lee Grieveson (Editor), Peter Stanfield (Editor), Esther Sonnet (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $34.03

  The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical films such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and The Godfather trilogy, resulting in a limited and distorted understanding of the compelling presence and persistence of the gangster.