The american dream and the culture of appearances in Mervyn Leroy’s Little Caesar

Known as the precursor of the gangster sound films from this genre’s “classic” period, Little Caesar, directed by Mervyn LeRoy in 1930, narrates Rico Bandello’s (Edward G. Robinson) path from his rise as a gang leader to his death. Little Caesar established the parameters followed by the gangster fi...

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Main Author: Elder Kôei Itikawa Tanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2017-01-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/45581