Author: Françoise Clary Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre ISBN: 9782877756501 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 212
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L’ouvrage rassemble des communications bilingues (anglais-français) issues du colloque tenu à l’université de Rouen sur la représentation filmique de la criminalité aux États-Unis de 1929 à 1951. Les liens d’Hollywood avec le crime organisé (mafia urbaine, grand banditisme …) posent diverses questions : l’héroïsation hollywoodienne du gangster, devenu le vecteur d’un nouveau système de valeurs, ne tend-elle pas à apparenter la transgression à un jeu ? L’esthétique de la violence n’accroît-elle pas la fascination des jeunes pour toute déviance, légitimant la mort virtuelle-réelle comme unique solution en cas de conflit ? Les studios hollywoodiens fondent-ils leur puissance et leur légitimité sur la diffusion de valeurs illicites ? Le recueil montre tout d’abord que la diffusion de ces nouveaux comportements répond à des choix économiques ; puis il aborde les rapports entre idéologie et société, traite ensuite de la censure et enfin réexamine l’esthétique de la violence.
Author: Michael Newton Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476639418 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 271
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Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American mobster and hitman who became one of the deadliest criminals in American history and one of the founders of the modern American Mafia in New York City. For all-out savagery and ruthlessness, few other leaders of the Mafia worldwide have rivaled Anastasia, known to peers as "The Mad Hatter" and to journalists as "The Lord High Executioner." After escaping a death sentence in 1921 and multiple other arrests for murder, he later served as director of the national crime syndicate's contract murder department ("Murder, Inc.") from 1931 until informers brought it down ten years later. By 1951 he led one of New York City's Five Families, a post he held until his public barbershop assassination in October 1957. This first-ever book-length biography of Anastasia traces the mobster's life and the ripple effects his career had on the American crime world. The story also tracks his brothers and their families, while debunking certain widespread myths about their parentage, various deportations, trials, convictions, and eventual retirement from the mob, dead or alive.
Author: Michael Munn Publisher: Robson Books Limited ISBN: 9781861052551 Category : Extortion Languages : en Pages : 0
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In the first half of this century Hollywood and the movie business was considered the richest prize in America. Little wonder, then, that the industry attracted the attentions of some of the most notorious names in criminal history. For Mafia bass Lucky Luciano and Chicago syndicate bass AI Capone, the fight to take control of Hollywood was the culminating conflict between two men who had hated each other since their early days as young hoods in New York. Yet, at the moment of their triumph, each was caught by the FBI and imprisoned. Complete with first-hand accounts from such Hollywood luminaries as Tony Curtis, James Cagney, Lauren Bacall and many others The Hollywood Connection is the first comprehensive examination of the power struggle between rival factions of the Mafia over the jewel
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