Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Abbreviations The Guide Appendix A: Serials Appendix B: Series Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

The only one-volume work to include all crime sub-genres (detective, mystery, cops-and-robbers, courtroom dramas) as well as gangster films.

About the Author

LARRY LANGMAN, a free-lance writer, has taught the art and history of film for many years./e He has written film articles for video magazines and has authored several books dealing with films and film history, including Writers on the American Screen (1986), An Encyclopedia of American Film Comedy (1987), A Guide to Silent Westerns (Greenwood, 1992), and A Guide to American Silent Crime Films (with Daniel Finn, Greenwood, 1994). DANIEL FINN, a free-lance writer, taught English in New York state for more than 25 years./e He specializes in creative writing and article publishing and was an instructor of composition at Syracuse University. He coauthored with Larry Langman A Guide to American Silent Crime Films. Currently he is working on an analysis of American short story writers.

Reviews

?The authors' present volume continues their excellent 1994 study, A Guide to American Silent Crime Films..., by providing screen credits and plot evaluations for some 1,132 American feature-lenght crime films released from 1928 through 1939. ... This book is recommended for academic and special libraries supporting strong film studies programs, and those institutions already holding the authors' earlier volume on silent crime films.?-ARBA

"The authors' present volume continues their excellent 1994 study, A Guide to American Silent Crime Films..., by providing screen credits and plot evaluations for some 1,132 American feature-lenght crime films released from 1928 through 1939. ... This book is recommended for academic and special libraries supporting strong film studies programs, and those institutions already holding the authors' earlier volume on silent crime films."-ARBA