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Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil (Updated Edition) by Jonathan Munby Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-226-55033-8 / 0226550338 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55033-6 / 9780226550336 In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Beginning in the early 1930s, these films told compelling stories about ethnic urban lower-class desires to "make it" in an America domin |