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Auteur(s) : Miklitsch, Robert (1953-....)
Titre(s) : I died a million times [Texte imprimé] : gangster noir in midcentury America / Robert Miklitsch
Publication : [Urbana, Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : xviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Films de gangsters -- États-Unis
Analyse filmique -- États-Unis
Films noirs -- Société -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 55 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes sociaux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780252043611. - ISBN 0252043618. - ISBN 9780252085543. - ISBN 025208554X. -
ISBN 9780252052491 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46706886q
Notice n° :
FRBNF46706886
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Table des matières : Machine generated contents note:Organized Crime as "Big Combo": The Octopus -- ; The
Syndicate Picture: Bright City Confidential -- ; The Syndicate/Rogue Cop Film: The
Racket -- ; The Rogue Cop Film: Dragnet vs. "Bloody Christmas" -- ; "Gangster with
a Badge": On Dangerous Ground -- ; The Heist Picture: "Nasty, Ugly People Doing Ugly,
Nasty Things" -- ; The Proto-Heist Film: High Sierra and Beyond -- ; pt. ONE. THE
SYNDICATE PICTURE -- ; 1.. The Combination -- ; 711 Ocean Drive: California Dreaming
-- ; The Captive City: Underworld, USA -- ; The Big Combo: Between Men -- ; 2.. The
Phenix City Story: History and Fiction (Film), Civil Rights, and the Last Days of
Pompeii -- ; 3.. The Brothers Rico: Sunshine Noir and the `50s Syndicate Picture --
; pt. TWO. THE ROGUE COP FILM -- ; 4.. Where the Sidewalk Ends: Theft, Adaptation,
Prototypicality -- ; Detective Story: In the Line of Fire -- ; Where the Sidewalk
Ends: Hate and Theft -- ; Coda: Night Cry, or Ringing the Changes -- ; 5.. The Thin
Blue Line -- ; The Prowler: Car Culture/Cadillac -- ; The Big Heat: Something/Nothing
-- ; Shield for Murder: Dirt/Castle Heights -- ; 6.. Touch of Evil: Good Cop/Bad Cop
-- ; pt. THREE. THE HEIST MOVIE -- ; 7.. The Asphalt Jungle: The City under the City
-- ; 8.. The Big Caper -- ; Armored Car Robbery: Striptease -- ; The Killing: Jigsaw
Puzzle -- ; Plunder Road: Near Mint -- ; 9.. Odds against Tomorrow: Race, Space, and
Sputnik Noir -- ; Coda: Post-'50s Syndicate, Rogue Cop, and "Big Caper" Films -- ;
Neo -- Gangster Noir Syndicate Picture: Underworld, U.S.A. -- ; The Post-'50s Rogue
Cop Film: Cape Fear -- ; Postclassic Heist Movie: Ocean's 11.
