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In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, pulp books and plays, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil it symbolized.
Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell.
Ruth's fascinating study of the cultural roles of the public enemy reveals efficient criminal executives demonstrating the multivarious uses of organization; dapper, big-spending gangsters highlighting the promises and perils of the emerging consumer society; and gunmen and molls guiding an uncertain public through the shifting terrain of modern gender roles.
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Inventing the public enemy: the gangster in American culture, 1918-1934
1996, University of Chicago Press
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Inventing the public enemy: the gangster in American culture, 1918-1934
1996, University of Chicago Press, University Of Chicago Press
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