TY  - GEN
T1  - I died a million times : gangster noir in midcentury America
A1  - Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1157841198
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 269
CN  - PN1995.9.G3 M54 2021
SN  - 0252052498
SN  - 9780252052491
SN  - 9780252043611
SN  - 9780252085543
KW  - Gangster films : United States : History and criticism.
KW  - Film noir : United States : History and criticism.
KW  - Motion pictures : Social aspects : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Films noirs : États-Unis : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Cinéma : Aspect social : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Films de gangsters : États-Unis : Histoire et critique.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - Film noir
KW  - Gangster films
KW  - Motion pictures : Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Film criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
KW  - Film criticism.
KW  - Critiques cinématographiques.
ER  -