Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Golden Age The "Classic" Gangster Film -- Little Caesar (1930) -- The Public Enemy (1931) -- 2 Dark Transformations The Descent into Noir -- High Sierra (1941) -- The Killers (1946) -- 3 The Genre's "Enlightenment" The Stress and Strain for Affirmation -- Kiss of Death (1947) -- Force of Evil (1948) -- Gun Crazy (1949) -- 4 Going Gray and Going Crazy Disequilibrium and Change at Midcentury -- D.O.A (1949) -- White Heat (1949) -- 5 Focus on Feeling "Seeing" through the Fifties -- Pickup on South Street (1953) -- 99 River Street (1953), The Phenix City Story (1955), The Brothers Rico (1957) -- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- 6 Contemporary Colorations The Modernist Perspective -- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) -- Point Blank(1967) -- The Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1975), and After -- 7 Toward the 21st Century Frenzies and Despairs -- Once upon a Time in America (1984) -- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) -- Appendix 1 Criss Cross One to "Watch Over and Over" -- Appendix 2 Gangster/Crime/Noir/Post-Noir: The Top 14 -- Appendix 3 50 Post-Godfather Crime/Noir Films Worth a Look -- Appendix 4 Aging Well: 50 Vintage Gangster/Crime/Noir -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.