Inventing the Public Enemy

Inventing the Public Enemy
Author: David E. Ruth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 1996-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226732185
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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.


Inventing the Public Enemy
Language: en
Pages: 217

Inventing the Public Enemy

Authors: David E. Ruth
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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.
Public Enemies, Public Heroes
Language: en
Pages: 276

Public Enemies, Public Heroes

Authors: Jonathan Munby
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-24 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure
Hoosier Public Enemy
Language: en
Pages: 281

Hoosier Public Enemy

Authors: John Beineke
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Indiana Historical Society

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During the bleak days of the Great Depression, news of economic hardship often took a backseat to articles on the exploits of an outlaw from Indiana—John Dill
Public Enemies
Language: en
Pages: 624

Public Enemies

Authors: Bryan Burrough
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-29 - Publisher: Penguin

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In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the fi
The Public Enemy
Language: en
Pages: 198

The Public Enemy

Authors: Harvey Thew
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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The Public Enemy, a 1931 Warner Brothers gangster classic, is easily remembered as the movie in which James Cagney used Mae Clarke's nose as a grapefruit grinde