Public Enemies, Public Heroes - Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil (Paper)

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Screening Crime in the USA An Undervalued Symbiosis 1(18) The Gangster's Silent Backdrop Contesting Victorian Uplift and the Culture of Prohibition 19(20) The Enemy Goes Public Voicing the Cultural Other in the Early 1930s Talking Gangster Film 39(27) Manhattan Melodrama's ``Art of the Weak'' Tactics of Survival and Dissent in the Post-Prohibition Gangster Film 66(17) Ganging Up against the Gangster Censorship, the Movies, and Cultural Transformation, 1915--1935 83(32) Crime, Inc. Beyond the Ghetto/Beyond the Majors in the Postwar Gangster Film 115(29) Screening Crime the Liberal Consensus Way Postwar Transformations in the Production Code 144(42) The ``Un-American'' Film Art Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, and the Political Significance of Film Noir's German Connection 186(35) Epilogue From Gangster to Gangsta Against a Certain Tendency of Film Theory and History 221(6) Appendix Production Code Administration Film Analysis Forms, 1934--1957 227(14) Bibliography 241(10) Film Index 251(4) Subject Index 255