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Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
ISBN: 9780226550336 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure.
Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower-class desires to "make it" in an America dominated by Anglo-Saxon Protestant ideals and devastated by the Great Depression. By the late 1940s, however, their focus shifted to the problems of a culture maladjusting to a new peacetime sociopolitical order governed by corporate capitalism. The gangster no longer challenged the establishment;... In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and politic...
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147,42 zł |
Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780226550367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? Unearthing the overlooked history of art that has often seemed at odds with the politics of civil rights and racial advancement, "Under a Bad Sign" explores the rationale behind this tradition of criminal self-representation from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary gangsta culture. What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? Unearthing the overlooked hi... |
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141,96 zł |
Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780226550350 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? Unearthing the overlooked history of art that has often seemed at odds with the politics of civil rights and racial advancement, "Under a Bad Sign" explores the rationale behind this tradition of criminal self-representation from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary gangsta culture. What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? Unearthing the overlooked hi... |
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436,80 zł |