Prohibition Chicago by Klatt

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. THE GANGSTERS ' MAYOR -- 1. 1920 -- 2. 1921-1923 -- 3. 1924 -- II. …”
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Overhearing film dialogue by Kozloff, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Words as Weapons: Dialogue in Gangster Films; 7. Misunderstandings: Dialogue in Melodramas; Conclusion; Notes; Select Filmography; Bibliography; Index.…”
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American film cycles : reframing genres, screening social problems, & defining subcultures by Klein, Amanda Ann, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: love at first sight -- Real gangsters do cry: a cyclical approach to film genres -- A dying serpent : understanding how film cycles change over time -- I was a teenage film cycle: the relationship between youth subcultures and film cycles -- Not only screen but the projector as well: the relationship between race and film cycles -- Conclusion: love, disdain, and the future of cycle studies.…”
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American film cycles : reframing genres, screening social problems, & defining subcultures by Klein, Amanda Ann, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: love at first sight -- Real gangsters do cry: a cyclical approach to film genres -- A dying serpent : understanding how film cycles change over time -- I was a teenage film cycle: the relationship between youth subcultures and film cycles -- Not only screen but the projector as well: the relationship between race and film cycles -- Conclusion: love, disdain, and the future of cycle studies.…”
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Queer popular culture : literature, media, film, and television

Table of Contents: “…Elia -- All my (queer) children: disrupting daytime desire in Pine Valley / Cathy Leaker -- Queer as Folk and the spectacularization of gay identity / Giovanni Porfido -- Fashionably femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style, and politics, in The L Word / Aviva Dove-Viebahn -- "Reading for It" : Lesbian readers constructing culture and identity through textual experience / Sheila Liming -- Reading and queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Wendy Hsu -- Diva interventions: Dana International and the Israeli gender culture / Amalia Ziv -- Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic representations of queerness in gangster films / Sharif Mowlabocus -- Straight shooters, stainless-steel stories, and cowboy codes: the queer frontier and American identity in a post-western world / Christopher Le Coney and Zoe Trodd -- New queer whit trash cinema / Daniel Mudie Cunningham -- Identity unmoored: Yaoi in the west / Mark McHarry -- Why (not) queer? …”
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Screening the novel : rediscovered American fiction in film by Miller, Gabriel, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1 JEWS WITHOUT MANNERS; 2 THE NEW WOMAN GETS THE OLD TREATMENT; 3 SPECIAL DELIVERY; 4 MARATHON MAN/MARATHON WOMAN; 5 THE WAGES OF SIN; 6 MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE; 7 THE GANGSTER AS EXISTENTIAL HERO; 8 THOSE WHO WALK IN DARKNESS; NOTES; FILM CREDITS; FILM RENTAL SOURCES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX…”
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Instituting nature : authority, expertise, and power in Mexican forests by Mathews, Andrew S.

Table of Contents: “…Building forestry in Mexico: ambitious regulations and popular evasions -- The Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca: mobile landscapes, political economy, and the fires of war -- Forestry comes to Oaxaca: bureaucrats, gangsters, and Indigenous communities, 1926-1956 -- Industrial forestry, watershed control, and the rise of community forestry, 1956-2001 -- The Mexican forest service: knowledge, ignorance, and power -- The acrobatics of transparency and obscurity: forestry regulations travel to Oaxaca -- Working the Indigenous industrial.…”
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Opium's orphans : the 200-year history of the war on drugs by Caquet, P. E.

Table of Contents: “…-- Shanghai and the Hague -- Prohibition triumphant. Gangsters -- Drug prohibition at its zenith -- Overreach -- The system challenged. …”
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Women drug traffickers : mules, bosses, and organized crime by Carey, Elaine, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Selling is more of a habit : women and drug trafficking, 1900-1980 -- Foreign vices : drugs, modernity, and gender -- Mules, smugglers, and peddlers : the illicit trade in Mexico, 1910s-1930s -- The white lady of Mexico City : lola la chata and the remaking of narcotics -- Transcending borders : la nacha and the "notorious" women of the north -- The women who made it snow : cold, dirty, drug wars, 1970s -- Gangsters, narcs, and women : a secret history.…”
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A Court that shaped America : Chicago's federal district court from Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman by Cahan, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction -- Chap. 1. 1778-1871: the freest people in the universe -- Chap. 2. 1871-1922: a sea of fire -- Chap. 3. 1922-1941: I would rather fight gangsters with indictments -- Chap. 4. 1941-1963: our titanic struggle against the enemy -- Chap. 5. 1963-1977: this is no longer a court of order -- Chap. 6: 1977-2002: you can't touch a federal court.…”
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A Court that shaped America : Chicago's federal district court from Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman by Cahan, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction -- Chap. 1. 1778-1871: the freest people in the universe -- Chap. 2. 1871-1922: a sea of fire -- Chap. 3. 1922-1941: I would rather fight gangsters with indictments -- Chap. 4. 1941-1963: our titanic struggle against the enemy -- Chap. 5. 1963-1977: this is no longer a court of order -- Chap. 6: 1977-2002: you can't touch a federal court.…”
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Soul babies : black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic by Neal, Mark Anthony

Table of Contents: “…"You remind me of something" : toward a post-soul aesthetic -- Sweetback's revenge : gangsters, blaxploitation, and Black middle-class identity -- Baby mama (drama) and baby daddy (trauma) : post-soul gender politics -- The post-soul intelligentsia : mass media, popular culture, and social praxis -- Native tongues : voices of the post-soul intelligentsia -- Epilogue. …”
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Nazi foreign policy, 1933-1941 : the road to global war by Leitz, Christian

Table of Contents: “…Hitler and Mussolini : the road to alliance in war -- 'Getting onto closer terms with the gangsters' : France, Britain and Nazi Germany -- Hitler, Poland, and Germany's conservative elites : from Non-Aggression Pact to conquest -- The road to 'Barbarossa' : Hitler and the Soviet Union -- Nazi Germany and Southeast Europe : from economic satellites in peace to partners and victims in war -- The Nazi regime and the American hemisphere -- Falling between two stools : Nazi Germany's East Asian policy.…”
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Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia by Baxstrom, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Strangers, Counterfeiters, and Gangsters: Figures of Belonging and the Problem of Belief -- 5. …”
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Her best shot : women and guns in America by Browder, Laura, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The news about women and guns -- Military heroines : narratives of female soldiers and spies in the Civil War -- Little Miss Sure Shot and friends, or, How armed women tamed the West -- Maid Marians and bad mothers: from the gungirls of the 1920s to the gangsters of the 1930s -- Radical women of the 1960s and 1970s -- Armed women of the far right : race mothers, warriors, and the surprising case of Carolyn Chute -- Armed feminism or family values? …”
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Kazakhstan in the making : legitimacy, symbols, and social changes

Table of Contents: “…-- The Landscape of Kazakh Nationalism -- Cowboys, Gangsters, and Rural Bumpkins -- The Society: Negotiating Cultural Changes -- Building a Muslim Nation" -- The Spirit of Tengri" -- Return Migration from the United States -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors…”
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The hip hop generation : young Blacks and the crisis in African American culture by Kitwana, Bakari

Table of Contents: “…: the new war of the sexes -- Young, don't give a fuck, and Black : Black gangster films -- Activism in the hip-hop generation : redefining social responsibility -- The politics of the hip-hop generation : identifying a political agenda -- The challenge of rap : from cultural movement to political power.…”
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Darknet : geopolitics and uses by Gayard, Laurent

Table of Contents: “…Barlow, February 1996) -- Digital Gangster Manifesto.…”
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The notorious Ben Hecht : iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist by Gorbach, Julien, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago School -- Shades of black : the stages of Hecht's cynicism -- Propagandist in training -- The journalist and the gangster -- The Chicago renaissance : little children of the arts -- Crying in the wilderness -- The un-Jewish Jew -- Return -- Jewish knights : the Bergson Group -- "Champion in chains" -- Campaign for a Jewish army -- "A challenge to the soul of men" -- "One of the greatest crimes in history" -- Blood and fire -- Only thus -- "Some kind of strength" -- Champion in chains, revisited -- The old new journalist -- Time out for psychology.…”
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The hidden history of crime, corruption, and states

Table of Contents: “…The Narcobourgeoisie and State Making in Colombia; 9. Russia's Gangster Capitalism; 10. Economic Crime and Neoliberal Modes of Government; Contributors; Index.…”
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From the headlines to Hollywood : the birth and boom of Warner Bros. by Yogerst, Chris, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Early Warner Bros. history -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: establishing dominance 1927-1930 -- Doorway to the depression: 1930 -- Gangsters, dames, and controversy: 1931 -- From the depot to the chain gang: 1932 -- Sexy dames, musicals, and angry catholics: 1933 -- Flirting with censors: 1934 -- G-men and censor-friendly heroes: 1935-36 -- Legions on the horizon: 1937 -- Moguls with angry faces: 1938 -- Confessions of Leon Turrou and changing attitudes of war: 1939-1940 -- Conclusion: 1941 and the march of war.…”
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Jews without money by Gold, Michael, 1893-1967

Table of Contents: “…Fifty cents a night -- How babies are made -- A gang of little yids -- Summer toadstools -- Did god make bedbugs -- The miser and the bum -- The golden bear -- The promised bride -- Sam Kravitz, that thief -- A house painter's tears -- The gangster's mother -- Mushrooms in Bronx Park -- Jews and Christians -- Buffalo Bill and the Messiah -- The saint of the umbrella store -- How to become a millionaire -- Two doctors -- The soul of the landlord -- The young avengers -- Blood money -- Bananas -- The job hunt.…”

City on fire : the explosion that devastated a Texas town and ignited a historic legal battle by Minutaglio, Bill

Table of Contents: “…""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Introduction""; ""The Priest""; ""The Voyage""; ""The Priest""; ""The Ship""; ""The Company""; ""The Ship""; ""The Priest""; ""The Ship""; ""The Mayor""; ""The Ship""; ""The Mayor""; ""The Warning ""; ""The Ship""; ""The Priest""; ""The People""; ""The First Words from Texas City""; ""The Scientist""; ""The Mayor""; ""The City""; ""The Mayor""; ""The People""; ""The Priest""; ""The Second Explosion""; ""The President""; ""The City""; ""The City""; ""The Gangster""; ""The Priest ""; ""The Unknown Dead""; ""The Mayor""…”
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Making a promised land : Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film by Massood, Paula J., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The era of the new Negro : African American politics and aesthetics in twentieth-century Harlem -- African American aesthetics and the city : picturing the Black bourgeoisie in New York -- Heaven and hell in Harlem : urban aesthetics for a renaissance people -- Delinquents in the making : Harlem's representational turn toward "marketable shock" -- Gangster's paradise : drugs and crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack cinema -- Echoes of a renaissance : Harlem's nostalgic turn -- Conclusion : making and re-making a promised land : Harlem's continuing revisions.…”
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Making a promised land : Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film by Massood, Paula J., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The era of the new Negro : African American politics and aesthetics in twentieth-century Harlem -- African American aesthetics and the city : picturing the Black bourgeoisie in New York -- Heaven and hell in Harlem : urban aesthetics for a renaissance people -- Delinquents in the making : Harlem's representational turn toward "marketable shock" -- Gangster's paradise : drugs and crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack cinema -- Echoes of a renaissance : Harlem's nostalgic turn -- Conclusion : making and re-making a promised land : Harlem's continuing revisions.…”
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American cinema of the 1990s : themes and variations

Table of Contents: “…Movies and the off-white gangster / Linda Mizejewski -- Movies and wayward images / Sharon Willis -- Movies and the politics of authorship / Amy Villarejo -- Movies and the new economics of blockbusters and indies / Chuck Kleinhans -- Movies and partisan politics / Diane Waldman -- Movies, teens, tots, and tech / Tim Shary -- Movies and homeland insecurity / Debra White-Stanley and Caryl Flinn -- Movies and the usable past / José B. …”
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The road to Dallas : the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Kaiser, David E., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Organized crime in the 1950s -- Castro takes power -- The CIA enlists the mob -- The Kennedys take over -- Operation mongoose -- Crusaders and gangsters -- The mob enlists the CIA -- pt. 2. Lee Harvey Oswald. -- A defector returns -- The big easy -- Oswald exposed -- The Odio incident -- Journey to Mexico -- pt. 3. …”
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City on fire : the explosion that devastated a Texas town and ignited a historic legal battle by Minutaglio, Bill

Table of Contents: “…""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Introduction""; ""The Priest""; ""The Voyage""; ""The Priest""; ""The Ship""; ""The Company""; ""The Ship""; ""The Priest""; ""The Ship""; ""The Mayor""; ""The Ship""; ""The Mayor""; ""The Warning ""; ""The Ship""; ""The Priest""; ""The People""; ""The First Words from Texas City""; ""The Scientist""; ""The Mayor""; ""The City""; ""The Mayor""; ""The People""; ""The Priest""; ""The Second Explosion""; ""The President""; ""The City""; ""The City""; ""The Gangster""; ""The Priest ""; ""The Unknown Dead""; ""The Mayor""…”
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Shanghai a go go

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Animal underworld

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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.

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Immigration and American Popular Culture : an Introduction. by Rubin, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood, 1930: JewishGangster Masquerade; 2. Los Angeles, 1943: Zoot SuitStyle, Immigrant Politics; 3. …”
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Knockout : the boxer and boxing in American cinema by Grindon, Leger, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…: the meaningful structure of the boxing film genre -- Gangsters, champions, and the history of the boxing film -- "Down for the count": critique of the success ethic in the boxing film -- "On the ropes": the conflict between assimilation and the Indigenous community -- Romance and the ring: gender conflict in the boxing film -- "Hitting below the belt": violence, suffering, and male emotion -- Body and soul: the conflict between the flesh and the spirit -- Art and genre in Raging bull (1980) -- Epilogue: into the twenty-first century -- Appendix 1: cycles/clusters of the boxing film genre -- Appendix 2: boxing films cited.…”
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Modern times. Billy : a violent mind

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Videofashion news. Volume 35, Episode 9, Tribal council

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Running scared. Episode 1

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Running scared. Episode 4

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10 things you don't know about. Season 3. Episode 10, The gold rush

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Videofashion daily. Vol. 5, Episode 8, New York

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