Money, women, and guns : crime movies from Bonnie and Clyde to the present / by Douglas Brode

By: Brode, Douglas, 1943-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Publishing Group, 1995Description: ix, 245 p : ill. ; 28 cmContent type: 36 ISBN: 9780863699184Subject(s): Gangster films -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc.DDC classification: 791.436556 LOC classification: PN1995.9.G3 | B76 1995
Contents:
Deconstruction, reflexivity, and self-referencing : an approach to the modern crime movie -- Bonnie and Clyde -- Point blank -- The last run -- The French connection -- Dirty Harry -- The family -- Superfly -- The getaway -- Walking tall -- Mean streets -- The friends of Eddie Coyle -- The sting -- Thieves like us -- Badlands -- Chinatown -- The killing of a Chinese bookie -- F.I.S.T. -- Thief -- The Cotton Club -- Once upon a time in America -- To live or die in L.A. -- Prizzi's honor -- Year of the dragon -- Tough guys -- The Untouchables -- Wall Street -- Married to the Mob -- Eight men out -- Colors -- Harlem nights -- The freshman -- Miller's Crossing -- State of grace -- GoodFellas -- The Godfather, part III -- The grifters -- Billy Bathgate -- New Jack City -- Mobsters -- Bugsy -- JFK -- American me -- Reservoir dogs -- The firm -- The fugitive -- True romance -- Carlito's way -- Romeo is bleeding -- Pulp fiction -- Natural born killers
Summary: This survey of the modern American crime film includes a critical introduction and analyses of fifty notable films
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"A Citadel Press book."

Deconstruction, reflexivity, and self-referencing : an approach to the modern crime movie -- Bonnie and Clyde -- Point blank -- The last run -- The French connection -- Dirty Harry -- The family -- Superfly -- The getaway -- Walking tall -- Mean streets -- The friends of Eddie Coyle -- The sting -- Thieves like us -- Badlands -- Chinatown -- The killing of a Chinese bookie -- F.I.S.T. -- Thief -- The Cotton Club -- Once upon a time in America -- To live or die in L.A. -- Prizzi's honor -- Year of the dragon -- Tough guys -- The Untouchables -- Wall Street -- Married to the Mob -- Eight men out -- Colors -- Harlem nights -- The freshman -- Miller's Crossing -- State of grace -- GoodFellas -- The Godfather, part III -- The grifters -- Billy Bathgate -- New Jack City -- Mobsters -- Bugsy -- JFK -- American me -- Reservoir dogs -- The firm -- The fugitive -- True romance -- Carlito's way -- Romeo is bleeding -- Pulp fiction -- Natural born killers

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