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Con "Piccolo Cesare", del 1929, siamo all'origine stessa del romanzo criminale. Assieme a "Giungla d'asfalto", l'altro capolavoro di Burnett, costituisce il modello e l'icona di ogni narrazione della giornata del "brulicante, sporca, fracassona, freneticamente viva" come la metropoli moderna, suo ambiente naturale. Da entrambi i romanzi, infatti, vennero insuperabili classici della cinematografia realistica americana; espressioni gergali nacquero dalle perfette metafore dei due titoli, capaci di sintetizzare in un'immagine l'intero universo criminale. Ed è interessante notare che, nati dall'osservazione dichiaratamente oggettiva, "verista" della realtà sociale, i due romanzi hanno certamente influenzato perfino la saggistica sociologica sull'argomento, almeno nelle scelte espressive e nella ricostruzione delle atmosfere. "Piccolo Cesare" è il ritratto di un boss, Rico Bandello, nell'arco della sua eccezionalmente capace, inesorabilmente freddo, professionalmente estraneo a ogni valutazione etica, straordinariamente fortunato. L'intenzione dichiarata dell' autore era di descrivere l'immagine del mondo vista con gli occhi di un gangster" raccontando la storia "in modo che l'azione stessa parlasse". Ma c'è anche qualcosa di più. Tacito ed evidente come una scultura, c'è un tipo umano in tutto il suo spessore psicologico; e in tutta la sua essere comunque sconfitto, dover sempre ricominciare.

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This book is about a 1931 Hollywood gangster classic. The Hollywood film industry responded to the dark economic conditions of the 1930's with escapist and nontopical films.

About the Author

    Gerald Peary is film critic for the Real Paper in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Formerly Assistant Professor of English and Film at Rutgers University, he is the author of several books on cinema.
    Tino Balio, Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the author of United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, and the editor of The American Film Industry as well as the 22 volume Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay series, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He directed the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research from 1966 to 1882.

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  • PublisherKaye & Ward
  • Publication date1967
  • ISBN 10 0718206150
  • ISBN 13 9780718206154
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
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