Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Modernity and the Classic Gangster Film The Post-Code Gangster: Ideology and Social Conscience The End of the Big Shot: The Gangster in the 1940's Outside Society, Outside the Gang: The Alienated Noir Gangster Order and Chaos, Syndicates and Heists Nostalgia and Renewal in the Post-Classical Gangster Film Notes A Chronology of the Gangster Film Bibliography

About the Author

FRAN MASON is a Lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies at King Alfred's College where he has taught since 1991. He heads the BA programme in Film and American Culture and the MA in Contemporary Popular Knowledges. He teaches and researches in the study of film and culture and has published on a range of areas, including conspiracy and cyberculture and American Literature and Culture.

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