The act of killing

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Turkish German cinema in the new millennium : sites, sounds, and screens

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Russian Cinema. by Gillespie, David

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Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature : International Perspectives. by Callahan, David

Table of Contents: “…; Insecurity and Institutions; Representative Texts and the Unruly; 'Australian' Australian Studies; Notes; Cyberspace and Oz Lit: Mark Davis, McKenzie Wark and the Re-Alignment of Australian Literature; Gangsters as Gatekeepers; On Not Reading; Offshore Interventions; Notes; Ethnic Autobiography and the Cult of Authenticity; Autobiography, Gender and the Paradoxes of Native Authenticity; Aboriginal Women's Life-Narratives and the Construction of the 'Market Reader'…”
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Nordic genre film : small nation film cultures in the global marketplace

Table of Contents: “…Stockholm Noir: Neoliberalism and Gangsterism in Easy Money8. The Private Life of the Prime Minister? …”
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The Social Uses of Literacy : Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa. by Prinsloo, Mastin

Table of Contents: “…'We can all sing, but we can't all talk': literacy brokers and tsotsi gangsters in a Cape Town shantytown; Section 3. Contextualising literacies: policy lessons; Chapter 9. …”
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Character assassination by Davis, Jerome, 1891-1979

Table of Contents: “…Hitting labor below the belt -- Pamphleteering against Unions -- Mohawk Valley formula -- LaFollette Committee's findings -- Communist label -- Spies and gangsters -- VII. The struggle for the mind of America -- Blasting the federal council of churches -- The World Council of Churches -- Attacking prophetic leaders of religion -- Case of Cecil Hinshaw -- Case of Gesa Takaro -- Religion and the un- American committee -- Spiritual mobilization -- VIII. …”
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The story of film. Episode 4, The arrival of sound

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Hollywood's America Understanding History Through Film. by Mintz, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Seeing Our Boys "Over There" -- Literary Digest, June 8, 1918, pp. 28-29 -- PART 2 Hollywoods Golden Age -- Introduction Backstage During the Great Depression: 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade -- 5 Depression America and Its Films -- 6 The Depressions Human Toll -- The Gangster Cycle -- The Fallen Woman Cycle -- 7 Depression Allegories -- 8 African Americans on the Silver Screen -- 9 Primary Sources -- THE INTRODUCTION OF SOUND -- "Pictures That Talk" -- Photoplay, 1924 -- Review of Don Juan -- Mordaunt Hall, The New York Times, 1926 -- "Silence is Golden"…”
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The hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

Table of Contents: “…Bashevis's untranslated "gangster" novel: Yarme un keyle. A background note on the translation of Yarme un keyle / Joseph Sherman ; Yarme and Keyle: chapter 2 / Isaac Bashevis Singer, trnaslated by Joseph Sherman -- Appendix. …”
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The hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

Table of Contents: “…Bashevis's untranslated "gangster" novel: Yarme un keyle. A background note on the translation of Yarme un keyle / Joseph Sherman ; Yarme and Keyle: chapter 2 / Isaac Bashevis Singer, trnaslated by Joseph Sherman -- Appendix. …”
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The company

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The red and the black : American film noir in the 1950s by Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…House of Bamboo: "Kimono Girl" (Red), Gaijin Gangster-Detective (Black)Slightly Scarlet: Color Me Bad; A Kiss before Dying: Pink Is the New Black; 8 Niagara: Colored Marilyns; 9 The Glass Web: 3-D, TV, and the Beginning of the End of Classic Noir; Conclusion: The Crimson Kimono: Odds for Tomorrow; Notes; Index.…”
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Directory of world cinema. Volume 21 : Brazil

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The Joker : a serious study of The Clown Prince of Crime

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The red and the black : American film noir in the 1950s by Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…House of Bamboo: "Kimono Girl" (Red), Gaijin Gangster-Detective (Black)Slightly Scarlet: Color Me Bad; A Kiss before Dying: Pink Is the New Black; 8 Niagara: Colored Marilyns; 9 The Glass Web: 3-D, TV, and the Beginning of the End of Classic Noir; Conclusion: The Crimson Kimono: Odds for Tomorrow; Notes; Index.…”
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Media and Translation : an Interdisciplinary Approach. by Abend-David, Dror

Table of Contents: “…A South African Take on the Gangster Film Genre : Translating Tsotsi and Hijack Stories foran International Audience: Zoë Pettit University of GreenwichPart Two: Subtitling and Dubbing; 4. …”
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Japan Unmasked : the Character & Culture of the Japanese. by De Mente, Boye

Table of Contents: “…24 Yakuza: The Story Behind Japan's "Honorable Gangsters"25 Zen's Contribution to Japan's Economic Power; 26 How Japan Became an Economic Superpower; 27 How the "Black-Mark" System Rules Japan; 28 Ijime: Terrorism in Japan's Schools; 29 Japan's "Hell" Schools; 30 More on the Crisis in Japanese Management; 31 Nihonteki: One of the Secrets of Japan's Success; 32 Selling Sex in a Glass: Japan's Pleasure Trades; 33 The Japanese Way of Striving for Perfection; 34 Japan's Myth of Internationalization; 35 Tuning in to Japan's Cultural Telepathy; 36 The West's Why/Because vs. …”
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Cases in communication law

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Ishiro Honda : a life in film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa by Ryfle, Steve, Godziszewski, Ed

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American masculinities : a historical encyclopedia

Table of Contents: “…Scott -- Football -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Fraternal Organizations -- Fraternities -- Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory -- Gambling -- Gangs -- Gangsters -- Gays in the Military -- Gilded Age -- Graham, Sylvester -- Grant, Cary -- Great Depression -- Gulick, Luther Halsey -- Guns -- Hall, Granville Stanley -- Health -- Hemingway, Ernest -- Heroism -- Heterosexuality -- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth -- Hoboes -- Hollywood -- Home Improvement -- Homosexuality -- Hudson, Rock -- Hunting -- Immigration -- Imperialism -- Individualism -- Industrialization -- Insanity -- Invisible Man -- Irish-American Manhood -- Iron John: A Book about Men -- Italian-American Manhood -- Jackson, Andrew -- James, William -- Jesus, Images of -- Jewish Manhood -- Juvenile Delinquency -- Kellogg, John Harvey -- Kerouac, Jack -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Kramer vs. …”
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Intelligent computational systems : a multi-disciplinary perspective

Table of Contents: “…E2Agent [45] -- 3.6. Gangster [46] -- 3.7. Group2Agent [47] -- 3.8. k-GAgent [49] -- 3.9. …”
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Arkansas godfather : the story of Owney Madden and how he hijacked Middle America by Nown, Graham

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Daily watch. God and the gang.

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60 minutes. Married to the mob

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Balthasar's Gift : a Maggie Cloete Mystery. by Otter, Charlotte

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Dreams bigger than the night : a novel by Levitt, Paul M.

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LA gang unit

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Yakuza : Japan's criminal underworld by Kaplan, David E.

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Time to remember. Episode 9, Crime & prohibition

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City of rogues and schnorrers : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa by Tanny, Jarrod

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Double crossed : the failure of organized crime control by Woodiwiss, Michael

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Moonshine : a global history by Kosar, Kevin R., 1970-

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Breaking Rocks : Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa. by Trapido, Joe

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Black Jack by Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989

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The mothers' house by Verster, François

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Haengdang-dong people

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Kings Cross : a biography by Nowra, Louis, 1950-

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To Serve and Collect : Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal, 1855-1960. by Lindberg, Richard C.

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The Lufthansa heist : behind the six-million-dollar cash haul that shook the world by Hill, Henry, 1943-2012

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