Little Caesar / Edited with an Introd. by Gerald Peary

Faragoh, Francis Edwards

ISBN 10: 029908454X / ISBN 13: 9780299084547

Published by Madison, Wis. : Published For The Wisconsin Center For Film And Theater Research By The University Of Wisconsin Press, 1981

About this Item

A fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 187 pages; A volume from the Wisconsin/Warner Bros Screenplay Series. Description: 187 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Cinema - Screenplays. 3 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Little Caesar / Edited with an Introd. by Gerald Peary
• Publisher: Madison, Wis. : Published For The Wisconsin Center For Film And Theater Research By The University Of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 029908454X
• ISBN 13: 9780299084547
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 3 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

    Little Caesar, a 1931 Hollywood gangster classic, is viewed in revivals today with nearly as much audience enthusiasm as it enjoyed a half-century ago, in the depths of the Great Depression.
    In general, the Hollywood film industry responded to the dark economic conditions of the 1930s with escapist and non-topical films. The fascinating exception was the gangster film, through which the studios joined in the debate over the spiritual and economic health of the nation. Little Caesar, considered by many to be an architype of the genre, is one of the most memorable dramatizations of the discontent and alienation, the deep anxiety and hostility shared by millions of Americans during those dark years.

About the Authors

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 is professor emeritus of film in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and former director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. He is author of United Artists, Volume 1, 1919–1950 and Volume 2, 1951–1978 as well as Grand Design: Hollywood as Modern Business Enterprise, 1930–1939. He is editor of The American Film Industry and Hollywood in the Age of Television.