作者: Robert J. Kelly

​This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film …

From Damon Runyan’s colorful tough guys in black shirts and white ties to recent media coverage of John Gotti, the `dapper don’, public depictions of racketeers in the United States have drawn attent …