Inventing the Public Enemy : The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934

Name: Inventing the Public Enemy
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226732183
Price: 5000 KES
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ISBN: 9780226732183

by David E. Ruth

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0226732185

ISBN-13 9780226732183

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 15th, 1996

Print length 200 Pages

Weight 348 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 22.90 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Cultural studies Media studies Organized crime

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In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It 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.

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