Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong Tapa blanda - 2007 - 1st Edición
de Martha P. Nochimson
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Dying to Belong offers a unique look at the complex and fascinating genre of the gangster movie. Across the world, gangster films are often mistakenly viewed as an inferior and immoral - -even dangerous - -type of entertainment. By examining a broad range of films spanning several decades, Martha Nochimson deftly illustrates the darker, more substantial themes of dislocation and disorientation which define true gangster films.
From Little Caesar and The Godfather to The Sopranos, the gangster's tale is that of an immigrant outsider looking in. The shock the gangster film delivers is not just in its physical violence, but in its perspective on the confusing and illusory promises of upward social mobility given to newcomers in Hollywood and Hong Kong. Here, classic screen traditions are explored using a new definition of the gangster genre. Offering no excuses for gangster behavior, Dying to Belong nevertheless highlights the disturbing resemblances of these "wild, bad men" to the straight citizens of two immigrant nations, in what is sure to be a controversial analysis of films that have historically been dismissed as part of a frivolous action genre.
Detalles
- Título Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong
- Autor Martha P. Nochimson
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 304
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Wiley-Blackwell
- Fecha de publicación April 15, 2007
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781405163712 / 1405163712
- Peso 1.08 libras (0.49 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.94 x 6.04 x 0.67 pulgadas (22.71 x 15.34 x 1.70 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Gangster films - United States - History and, Gangster films - China - Hong Kong - History
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2007003771
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
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