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Popular culture in Hong Kong : discourse of law and order in the gangster movies of the 1990s /Liu, Ka-wang, Angus. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-34).
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Popular culture in Hong Kong discourse of law and order in the gangster movies of the 1990s /Liu, Ka-wang, Angus. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-34). Also available in print.
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Captive city, captive audience : the Kefauver hearings and representations of the Hollywood gangsterYoung, Nerys January 2002 (has links)
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Popular culture in Hong Kong: discourse of law and order in the gangster movies of the 1990sLiu, Ka-wang, Angus., 廖家泓. January 2000 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Literary and Cultural Studies / Master / Master of Arts
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The rise of the American gangster film, 1913-1930Peary, Gerald. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 284-295).
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Gender and crime in postmodern cinemaYu, King-lun, Sunny., 余經綸. January 2004 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Literary and Cultural Studies / Master / Master of Arts
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Exploring the South African gangster film genre prior and post liberation : a study of Mapantsula, Hijack Stories and Jerusalema.Govender, Poobendran. January 2011 (has links)
This dissertation is a study of the gangster film genre and how it has been used to represent
the sociopolitical and economic conditions of South Africa over an extended period of time.
Firstly, by looking at the early history of the influence of the gangster genre on South African
audiences, specifically the Sophiatown generation, a history of the genre being strongly
linked to sociopolitical conditions in South Africa is established. The project then focuses on
South African-made gangster films, beginning with Mapantsula (1988) and how it speaks to
the tumultuous times of the 1980s prior to liberation. It then proceeds to examine Hijack
Stories (2000) as a gangster film that represents South African society post-liberation. Lastly,
it examines Jerusalema (2008) as a recent example of the gangster film and its representation
of current issues, problems and tensions within South African society. The project delves into
the messages that the gangster genre in particular holds as a genre that is intimately linked to
social, economic and political conditions. The use of the genre as a tool to represent the
experiences of South Africans prior to and post liberation is of particular interest to this
research.
Introduction: Genre and the Gangster Film
This chapter attempts briefly to define genre in film studies, discuss how genres operate and
explore the importance of genre. It also offers an elaboration of the history of the gangster
film as well as discussion of the ideas of its three most significant theorists.
Chapter 1: The Hollywood gangster figure in Sophiatown
This chapter examines the influence of the Hollywood gangster figure on the audiences of
Sophiatown. It explores the emulation of the style, mannerisms and behavior of the cinematic
gangster by the residents of Sophiatown as a way of adopting a resistant urban identity in
opposition to the dominant ideology of the time. However, it is found that this resistance fails
to effectively become political in the form of an anti-government resistance. Chapter 1: The Hollywood gangster figure in Sophiatown
This chapter examines the influence of the Hollywood gangster figure on the audiences of
Sophiatown. It explores the emulation of the style, mannerisms and behavior of the cinematic
gangster by the residents of Sophiatown as a way of adopting a resistant urban identity in
opposition to the dominant ideology of the time. However, it is found that this resistance fails
to effectively become political in the form of an anti-government resistance.
Chapter 2: Mapantsula as Pre-liberation South African Gangster Film
This chapter explores the relationship between the ‘pantsula’ subculture and the cinematic
gangster and thereafter makes a case for how Mapantsula can be read as a gangster film.
Furthermore, it goes on to study how Mapantsula works within the gangster genre framework
looking at the politicization of Panic with a focus on pre-liberation South Africa.
Chapter 3: Hijack Stories as Post-liberation South African Gangster Film
This chapter examines Hijack Stories as a South African example of the gangster film by
firstly situating it within the genre and then examining how it functions as a post-liberation
South African gangster film around the period of its release. The gangster figure here is
linked to ideas of authenticity and black experience.
Chapter 4: Jerusalema as recent Post-liberation South African Gangster Film
This chapter examines how Jerusalema uses the conventions of the gangster genre to explore
current South African issues in particular, the tension between the ideology of capitalist
entrepeneurship and that of restitution and social justice. It goes on to then study how it
works as a post-liberation recent gangster film exploration of modern day South African
society.
Conclusion
This chapter briefly examines how the gangster film genre has survived in South Africa over
a long and shifting period of time and how it has spoken to different periods in South Africa’s
history through the films discussed in this research. The gangster figure starts as a resistant
figure in Mapantsula who slowly moves away from material pursuits and becomes
politicized. Thereafter in Hijack Stories, the gangster figure is used to explore issues of black
identity in the post-liberation period and to explore the growing divide between the recently
advantaged and the still disadvantaged black South African. Finally, Jerusalema uses the
gangster genre to stage the contradictions of the “South African Dream” and the lack of a
firm direction for South Africa as the ideologies of capitalism and social justice clash while
the period after the fall of an order leaves much in question as a nation finds its identity. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.
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Fagidaboudit the American dream and Italian-American gangster movies /Lamberti, Justin V., Winn, J. Emmett January 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis(M.S.)--Auburn University, 2005. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (p.98-101).
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Say hello to my little friend De Palma's Scarface, cinema spectatorship, and the Hip hop gangsta as urban superhero /Prince, Rob. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2009. / Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 452 p. : col. ill. Includes bibliographical references.
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Inimigos públicos em Hollywood: estratégias de contenção e ruptura em dois filmes de gângster dos anos 1930-1940 / Public enemies in Hollywood: strategies of containment and rupture in two gangster films from the 1930s-1940sTanaka, Elder Kôei Itikawa 11 April 2016 (has links)
O objetivo dessa tese é investigar de que maneira Little Caesar (Mervyn Leroy, 1931) e Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1947) registram, dentro do gênero gângster, questões como a Depressão na década de 1930, e o macarthismo na década de 1940, ao mesmo tempo em que estabelecem homologias estruturais entre o crime organizado e o mundo dos negócios. Tais questões surgem nesses dois filmes por força da matéria histórica envolvida nas condições de produção. Nossa tese é de que os filmes configuram, em diferentes medidas, estratégias de representação da matéria histórica apesar das tentativas de seu apagamento, como a censura e o macarthismo. / The aim of this thesis is to analyze how Little Caesar (Mervyn Leroy, 1931) and Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1947) portray, in the gangster genre, historically relevant questions such as the Great Depression in the 1930s and McCarthyism in the 1940s, while establishing structural homologies between organized crime and the business world. These themes arise in both films due to the strength of the historical substance implicated in the conditions of production. Our thesis is that these films depict, in different proportions, strategies of representation of the historical substance in spite of attempts to suppress it, such as censorship and McCarthyism.
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