Versions of Hollywood Crime Cinema : Studies in Ford, Wilder, Coppola, Scorsese, and Others.
Title:
Versions of Hollywood Crime Cinema : Studies in Ford, Wilder, Coppola, Scorsese, and Others.
Author:
Freedman, Carl.
ISBN:
9781783201341
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (202 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SECTION I: Gangsterism and Capitalism: The Mob Movie and After -- The supplement of Coppola: Primitive accumulation and the Godfather trilogy -- Hobbes after Marx, Scorsese after Coppola: On GoodFellas -- Tony Soprano and the end(s) of the mob movie -- SECTION II: Noir and its Discontents -- Marxism, cinema, and some dialectics of film noir and science fiction -- Noir, neo-noir, and the end of work: From Double Indemnity to Body Heat -- SECTION III: Empire and Gender in the John Wayne Western -- Versions of the American imperium in three Westerns by John Ford -- Post-heterosexuality: John Wayne and the construction of American masculinity -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
This book is intended as a kind of sequel to the one that published in 2002 titled The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture. The current volume is designed to be completely free-standing and fully intelligible on its own. In this book,Freedman focuses on Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy - arguably the foremost work of crime cinema - using it to reflect on the Marxist category of primitive accumulation and the relationship between "gangsterism and capitalism". The volume also includes in-depth critiques of classics of film noir (including Double Indemnity and Body Heat) and the Western, which is often not thought of as a kind of crime film even though its setting is an entire society in which crime flourishes.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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