Slum plays, salvation stories, and crook pictures: the gangster regeneration cycle and the prehistory of the gangster genre

Recent scholarship exhorts film historians to attend to production cycles in order to interrogate established conceptions of genres. This essay identifies and examines a neglected cycle of gangster regeneration films that flourished between 1910 and 1925 and constituted the prehistory of a genre usu...

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Main Author: Heffernan, Nick
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University Press 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44472/