Money, women, and guns : crime movies from Bonnie and Clyde to the present /

This survey of the modern American crime film includes a critical introduction and analyses of fifty notable films

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brode, Douglas, 1943-
Corporate Author: Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, [1995], ©1995
Secaucus, N.J. : c1995
Secaucus, N.J. : [1995]
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Table of Contents:
  • Deconstruction, reflexivity, and self-referencing : an approach to the modern crime movie
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • Point blank
  • The last run
  • The French connection
  • Dirty Harry
  • The family
  • Superfly
  • The getaway
  • Walking tall
  • Mean streets
  • The friends of Eddie Coyle
  • The sting
  • Thieves like us
  • Badlands
  • Chinatown
  • The killing of a Chinese bookie
  • F.I.S.T.
  • Thief
  • The Cotton Club
  • Once upon a time in America
  • To live or die in L.A.
  • Prizzi's honor
  • Year of the dragon
  • Tough guys
  • The Untouchables
  • Wall Street
  • Married to the Mob
  • Eight men out
  • Colors
  • Harlem nights
  • The freshman
  • Miller's Crossing
  • State of grace
  • GoodFellas
  • The Godfather, part III
  • The grifters
  • Billy Bathgate
  • New Jack City
  • Mobsters
  • Bugsy
  • JFK
  • American me
  • Reservoir dogs
  • The firm
  • The fugitive
  • True romance
  • Carlito's way
  • Romeo is bleeding
  • Pulp fiction
  • Natural born killers