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02652aam a2200373 i 4500 001 3BC14642AD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210505010019 008 200603s2021 ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020023673 020 $a 0252043618 020 $a 9780252043611 020 $a 025208554X 020 $a 9780252085543 035 $a (OCoLC)1142509805 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d PAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9 G3 M54 2021 100 1 $a Miklitsch, Robert, $d 1953- $e author. 245 10 $a I died a million times : $b gangster noir in midcentury America / $c Robert Miklitsch. 264 1 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xviii, 269 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre of films focused on crime syndicates, crooked cops, and capers. With the Senate's organized crime hearings and the brighter-than-bright myth of the American Dream as a backdrop, Miklitsch examines the style and history, and the production and cultural politics, of classic pictures from The Big Heat and The Asphalt Jungle to lesser-known gems like 711 Ocean Drive and post-Fifties movies like Ocean's Eleven. Miklitsch pays particular attention to trademark leitmotifs including the individual versus the collective; the family as a locus of dissension and rapport; the real-world roots of the heist picture; and the syndicate as an octopus with its tentacles deep into law enforcement, corporate America, and government. If the memes of gangster noir remain prototypically dark, the look of the films becomes lighter and flatter, reflecting the influence of television and the realization that, under the cover of respectability, crime had moved from the underworld into the mainstream of contemporary everyday life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Gangster films $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Film noir $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Miklitsch, Robert, 1953- $t I died a million times $d Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021. $z 9780252052491 $w (DLC) 2020023674 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023033.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211005011924.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3BC14642AD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search