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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Gangster"”.
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Last gangster of the old school a novel
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The construction of the gang in British Columbia : Mafioso, gangster, or thug? An examination of the uniqueness of the BC gangster phenomenon
This thesis explores the structure, demographics, and history of gangs in British Columbia (BC), Canada, through a social constructionist lens. The purpose of this research is for the reader to consider the current state of gangs in BC as inherently different from other places in the world, to …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
… representatively governed societies. Taking the gangster genre as my lens, I first resituate the form, assumed to depict white-ethnic conflict in the U.S. and Europe, as a type of resistance to race-based political economic policies imposed by imperial regimes. After linking the subaltern classes …
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Gravesend
… to Ray Boy. And Eugene, Ray Boy's nephew, is a gangster-in-the-making who idolizes his uncle for all the wrong reasons. These characters spin around Ray Boy, crossing paths and seeking to come to terms with what the neighborhood has made them.
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Crime that is organized: A Case Study on Gangs in Chicago's Impoverished Ghetto
… operate despite, in the case of Chicago's Black Gangster Disciples Nation and its splinters, a shared history. If we are to reduce the hold these groups have over urban societies, we must first seek to understand each group individually, pulling out the root issues that drive their actions and …
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The Viet Cong
… him. Instead of a face-to-face meeting, Tony – a gangster – tests Eddie’s English skills by sending him on an errand with his hired muscle, Big Baby, to collect an outstanding debt from an American expat. After the frightening ordeal, Eddie meets Tony in his club. Tony, impressed with the results, …
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Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
… study argues that two friends, one the Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen and the other the Jewish poet Max Bodenheim, provide keys to understanding Hecht's militant rhetoric and its historical relevance. While the Cohen narrative explains the political dimension of Hecht's ideology and the Bodenheim …
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Cityscapes of exclusion: representation of the favela, favelados and figures of authority with specfic reference to cidade de deus
… appear to pay homage to contemporary American gangster films. Instead, I will argue that the filmmaker's blend of documental reatism, stylised set pieces and a prevalent socio-political commentary draws greater parallels with Cinema Novo's "esthetic of hunger" (Rocha, 1997 [1965]: 59-61) and …
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Comedy in British and Italian film from 1949 to 1975
… 1958) in terms of elements of parody of gangster films, representation of women, and comic characters, with particular reference to the intertextual features employed in the films. The second chapter examines the elements of satire of Sicilian and Victorian values in Kind Hearts and …
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Political party machines of the 1920s and 1930s: Tom Pendergast and The Kansas City democratic machine.
… Johnson, Frank Hague and Tom Pendergast, the gangster John Lazia, as well as men who did business with or fought Pendergast, such as future president Harry S. Truman, Missouri U.S. Attorney Maurice Milligan and even Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Democracy's children?: the constitution of male subjectivity of coloured adolescents awaiting trial in post-apartheid Cape Town
… becoming ·1-foll:,,ood heroes· and creating gangster ·brotherhoods· \hich resist the social dislol..'.ation produced b:, their historical situation. To some degree. then. ·democrac:, ·s children· use the ver:, discourses \ hich llXm and I irn it them. to exert agenc:. The author argues that …
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Reading Speculative Subjectivities: The Second Generation and the Afterlife of Migration
… ethnically disparate texts, l thi diem thuys The Gangster We Are All Looking For, Meera Syals Anita and Me, David Chariandys Soucouyant, and Junot Diazs The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I argue that these texts have a future-facing orientation that might seem at odds with the melancholy tones …
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Youth experience of deviant behaviour as portrayed in some television programmes: A Case Study of the Youth of Madonsi Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… the abuse of drugs and alcohol, involvement in gangster activities and sexual confusion. The study recommends that the municipality should build a community library in the area which will be programmed to restrict access to YouTube, pornography, etc.,
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What Is That Song? : Aleksej Balabanov's Brother and Rock as Film Music in Russian Cinema
… as it combines a rock compilation score with gangster action instead of focusing only on youth or high art thematics. The analysis uncovers that the rock songs represent the voice of the author, but they are ambivalent in their relationship to the diegesis. A struggle emerges between the …
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Narratives of gang desistance amongst former gang members
… a Cape Town community with a high prevalence of gangsterism. Thematic narrative analysis was used to analyse the interview data. Findings revealed that the participants’ narratives of desistance focused on a profound transformation in identity in which they moved away from the hardened, stoic …
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The Function of Physical Space in the Cuban Novel of the 1950s
… in La trampa demonstrates that not only are gangsters, policemen and homosexuals shown to occupy particularly challenged positions, but also that constructions of mainstream Cuban masculinity are under threat. The conclusion compares the function of spaces across all four novels, adding new …