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This work provides a history of the 20th-century American gangster film. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films that best define and exemplify each period in the development of the American crime film.

Title Dreams and dead ends : the American gangster film / Jack Shadoian. [electronic resource]
Edition 2nd ed.
Publisher New York
Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Previous edition: Cambridge, Mass.
London: MIT, 1977.
Previously issued in print: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Oxford scholarship online
Extent xv, 376 p. : ill.
Language English
National Library system number 997011436811405171
MARC RECORDS
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