HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Miklitsch, Robert, 1953- author.
Subjects
Gangster films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Miklitsch, Robert, 1953- author.
by title:
I died a million tim...
MARC Display
I died a million times : gangster noir in midcentury America / Robert Miklitsch.
by
Miklitsch, Robert, 1953- author.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Subjects
Gangster films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780252085543 (paperback)
025208554X (paperback)
Description:
xviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Requests:
0
Summary:
"In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre of films focused on crime syndicates, crooked cops, and capers. With the Senate's organized crime hearings and the brighter-than-bright myth of the American Dream as a backdrop, Miklitsch examines the style and history, and the production and cultural politics, of classic pictures from The Big Heat and The Asphalt Jungle to lesser-known gems like 711 Ocean Drive and post-Fifties movies like Ocean's Eleven. Miklitsch pays particular attention to trademark leitmotifs including the individual versus the collective; the family as a locus of dissension and rapport; the real-world roots of the heist picture; and the syndicate as an octopus with its tentacles deep into law enforcement, corporate America, and government. If the memes of gangster noir remain prototypically dark, the look of the films becomes lighter and flatter, reflecting the influence of television and the realization that, under the cover of respectability, crime had moved from the underworld into the mainstream of contemporary everyday life"--
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
791.43655 Mi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.