Filmmakers Series: Pump 'em Full of Lead! (Twayne's Filmmakers) [Paperback]

Marilyn Yaquinto (Author)

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If you like gangster films, or you're just interested in the concept of genre, this book will provide plenty of bullets, blood, and brotherhood with just enough high-brow analysis to keep your frontal lobe humming. Author Marilyn Yaquinto does a good job of tracking down every candidate for admission into the gangster film genre, and she's especially good at showing how more recent films from the "Black New Wave" and independent directors are informed by and expand on the notions of the gangster classics of the '30s and '40s and the works of Italian-American directors like Scorsese and Coppola in the '70s and '80s. Pump 'Em Full of Lead is an intellectual bullet fest from Bonnie and Clyde to Boyz N the Hood. --James DiGiovanna

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers; 1 edition (March 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805738924
• ISBN-13: 978-0805738926
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #333,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic, March 28, 2008

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Samuel S. Gellura (NEW JERSEY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Filmmakers Series: Pump 'em Full of Lead! (Twayne's Filmmakers) (Paperback)

THIS BOOK TOUCHED ON EVERYTHING FROM THE ROOTS OF THE GANGSTER MOVIE TO DIFFERENT CULTURES IN THE GENRE ... SO COMPLETE... THE GANGSTER MOVIE BOOM OF THE 30'S AND 40'S TO FILM-NOIR THEN DETAILED INFORMATION FROM THE BOOM IN THE 90'S TO TARANTINO AND THE DIRECTION OF NEO-NOIR...VERY GOOD! THE ONLY PART THAT WAS POORLY WRITTEN AND A LITTLE CONFUSING WAS WHEN THE AUTHOR WROTE ABOUT THE FILM BOYZ N THE HOOD AND IT'S MAIN CHARACTER TRE , THEN FOLLOWED THAT WITH MENACE TO SOCIETY AND THE MAIN CHARACTER IS NAMED CAINE WHO THE AUTHOR REFERS TO SEVERAL TIMES AS TRE. GREAT BOOK!

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant..., October 10, 2005

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mrpink "mrpink" (Anderson, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Filmmakers Series: Pump 'em Full of Lead! (Twayne's Filmmakers) (Paperback)

This book is a very simple, yet detailed view of gangster films ranging from White Heat to Boyz in the Hood. It mentions almost all "gangster" films ever made, and expplains in detail about a dozen and a half.
If you feel like learning about old or new gangster films, this is an excellent book. It is also very good for research.