Crimine organizzato e Big Business nel genere gangster hollywoodiano a partire dalla prima metà del Novecento

Abstract

The following article aims to analyze how the representation of gangster in Hollywood movies (1905-1939) has changed according to the transformations of the American society and the embedding of neo-populist mythology by the New Deal Administration: the gangster, before immigrant and “alien by nature”, from the Thirities on becomes the incarnation of unregulated capitalism. This paper would like to suggest a map of the relations between cinema and society and how one was influenced by the other (and vice versa) in order to show on the Big Screen the phenomenon of gangsterism, a theme deeply connected with American Society and the idea of “Americaness”.

Keywords

• cinema
• gangster-movie
• new deal
• populism
• united states
• populismo
• stati uniti