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Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture From The Silents To "The Sopranos" (Hardcover)

by John McCarty (Author) "BLAME IT ON DAVID WARK GRIFFITH..." (more)
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According to McCarty, Americans admire the antihero gangster because he's an unbound character who goes where he wants, does what he wants and "takes no bull from anybody." The author conveys the appeal of these reckless outlaws, personified in film by such icons as Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, through concise analyses of key crime films and well-drawn personal histories of the genre's central stars, directors and writers. McCarty, who's written some 30 books (The Fearmakers; etc.), astutely charts the inextricable link between gangster movies and westerns to a point where one mobster film, High Sierra (1941), was reshaped for cowboy fan consumption via Colorado Territory (1949), then underwent a gangster remake as I Died a Thousand Times (1955). McCarty kicks off with 1915's Regeneration and shoots through White Heat (1949), The Godfather (1972) and Chicago (2002). He credits D.W. Griffith for making the first gangster picture of any importance, The Musketeers of Pig Alley. He applauds Silky Jane Greer for her haunting, indelible portrayal of Kathy Moffat in 1947's Out of the Past and brings Richard Widmark vibrantly alive as the psychopath who pushes wheelchair-bound Mildred Dunnock down a flight of stairs. The book's most telling line powerfully indicates how vital gangster movies have been by citing George Raft—"gangster movies... taught gangsters how to talk"— and concludes that real-life criminals now define themselves by the mob images they've seen in The Godfather, Goodfellas and The Sopranos. Photos.
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Choice January 2005
"McCarty provides an expansive look at the history of the gangster film in Hollywood."

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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press; 1st Da Capo Press Ed edition (June 15, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0306813017
  • ISBN-13: 978-0306813016
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,092,501 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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