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A Companion to the Gangster Film
George S. Larke-Walsh (Edited by), GS Larke–Walsh (Author)
9781119041665, Wiley
Hardback, published 16 November 2018
552 pages
24.1 x 17 x 3 cm, 0.975 kg
A companion to the study of the gangster film’s international appeal spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia 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. The book examines common themes across all three continents such as production histories and reception, gender race and sexuality, mafia mythologies, and politics. In addition, the companion clearly shows that no national cinema develops in isolation and that cinema is a truly global popular art form. This important guide to the gangster film genre: Written for academics and students of film, A Companion to the Gangster Film offers a scholarly and authoritative guide exploring the various aspects and international appeal of the gangster film genre.
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xvi Introduction 1 Part I The Americas 21 1 Mary Pickford Meets the Mafia 23 2 Tough Talk: Early Sound and the Development of American Gangster Film Vernacular, 1928–1930 41 3 How Good Boys Go Bad: The Changing Face of the Gangster Film in America 58 4 Making of a Mobster: From Myth to the Crystallization of the Mafia Archetype in 1950s and 1960s Italian and Italian American Film 76 5 Moral Ambiguities: The Frenchness of New Hollywood Gangster Families 97 6 The Assassin’s Economics of Killing: Money, Honor, and the Market of Murder 113 7 The 1990s Hollywood Gangster: Generic Reflections and Deflections 129 8 “Based On A True Story”: Public Enemies and the Biographical Gangster Film 146 9 The Gangster in Hispanic American Cinema 166 10 The Jamaican Gangster Film: Badman, Rude Bwoys, and Dons 182 Part II Europe 209 11 When Criticism Meets Gangster Films: The Spiv Cycle as Oppositional Aesthetics in Postwar Britain 211 12 The Patriarchal Figure in the 1950s French Gangster Film: Legendary Men from a Recent Past 228 13 Mafia, Mobility, and Capitalism in Italy Circa 1960 244 14 Gangsters in Turkish Cinema 262 15 Sun‐Drenched Corruption: Organized Crime, Global Capitalism, and the Mediterranean Coast in Recent Spanish Cinema 283 16 The Russia They Have Lost: The Russian Gangster as Nostalgic Hero 302 17 A Hint of Lavender: The Gay Gangster in British Crime Cinema 319 18 The Modern British Gangster Film 334 Part III Asia 353 19 Death and Duty: The On‐Screen Yakuza 355 20 Yakuza no Onnatachi: Women in Japanese Gangster Cinema 377 21 Futile Liberation: Post‐Martial‐Law Taiwanese Gangster Films 395 22 Ruling the Men’s Den: Crime, Outrage, and Indian Women Gang Leaders 413 23 Tsui Hark’s Film Workshop: Political Cues in the Gangster Film 1986–1989 430 24 The Godfather Legacy: Homage and Allusion in Transnational Cinema 446 25 Gangsta Gangsta: Hong Kong Triad Films, 1986–2015 463 26 Politics, Social Order, and Hierarchies in Post‐Millennium Hong Kong Cinema 480 27 Jung Doo‐hong and the Gangster Body: Kkangpae in Contemporary South Korean Cinema 497 Index 518
George S. Larke‐Walsh
Amy E. Borden
Ron Wilson
John E. Petty
Ryan Calabretta‐Sajder
Isolde Vanhee
Fran Mason
Karine Hildenbrand
Stephen Gaunson
Philip Swanson
Imruh Bakari
Ana Rodríguez Granell
Thomas Pillard and Translated by Myriam Chihab
Luca Peretti
Hülya Önal
Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
Lioudmila Fedorova
Paul Elliott
Tom Ryall
Elayne Chaplin
Laura Treglia
Dominique Liao
Sony Jalarajan Raj, Rohini Sreekumar, and Nithin Kalorth
James Fenwick
George S. Larke‐Walsh
Valerie Soe
Kelvin Ke Jinde
Se Young Kim
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
