The Gangster Film: Emergence, Variation and Decay of a Genre, 1930-1940

New York: Arno Press. Near Fine. 1973 (c.1970). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, as issued) [the teensiest bit of wear to the extremities, tiny bookshop name (Larry Edmunds Cinema Bookshop) stamped on front endpaper and at lower corner of title page]. (Dissertations on Film Series) Series The first publication in book form of this academic survey of the genre during its formative decade, submitted as a Ph.D. dissertation at Northwestern University. The author went on to a notable career as a television writer, often in collaboration with his wife Elinor. .