Product Description: While the gangster film may have enjoyed its heyday in the 1930s and ’40s, it has remained a movie staple for almost as long as cinema has existed. From the early films of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson to modern versions like Bugsy, Public Enemies, and Gangster Squad, such films capture the brutality of mobs and their leaders...read more

Product Description: Francisco de Hollanda completed Da pintura antigua in 1548, eight years after the young Portuguese humanist, painter, and architect had spent two years in Italy. Book I is the first Portuguese treatise on the theory and practice of painting...read more

Examines the development of film noir in America during the 1940s and 1950s, noting important actors and filmmakers, camera and directorial techniques, and the influence of film noir on the character of American gangster movies

Presents a history of gangster films, covering the actors, essential films, and plots of the genre.

Surveys the gangster film genre, exploring its roots, the ways it has evolved since the silent film era, and its prominent filmmakers (view table of contents)

Product Description: Crime movies are as old as filmmaking itself. They embody the American nightmare, functioning both as a mirror of society and a tool for educating the public about its enemies. In this history of the genre Carlos Clarens gives us a mini-history of crime American-style...read more

Lists the credits and summarizes the plots of crime movies ranging from Bonnie and Clyde to the present

Stills from classic gangster films augment a fully researched history of a popular movie genre, starting from the early days when real gangsters served as extras and continuing through the days of Cagney and Bogart to the present.

Ranges from D. W. Griffith's Intolerance to The Godfather and beyond to examine the directors, writers, performers, and producers behind the making of films that have dealt with the controversial, profitable subject of criminality