Often presented as a gangster, newspaper reporter, or private eye, the "city boy" seemed the quintessential product of urban America, although he was more a model for his audience than a mirror of social actuality. While blending the stories of the professional and political lives of Cagney, Bogart, and Garfield into one fascinating narrative, Robert Sklar probes the cultural forces that produced this vivid cultural icon and examines its power over masculine self-definition.
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Often presented as a gangster, newspaper reporter, or private eye, the "city boy" seemed the quintessential product of urban America, although he was more a model for his audience than a mirror of social actuality. While blending the stories of the professional and political lives of Cagney, Bogart, and Garfield into one fascinating narrative, Robert Sklar probes the cultural forces that produced this vivid cultural icon and examines its power over masculine self-definition.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Excellent study of the 'city boy' character (gangster/press man/private eye) in popular film. All in VG+ clean and bright internal order. Light wear to pictorial card covers. 8vo. xiii, 311pp.
