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Description:Urban Originals When the mean streets went Hollywood, the city boy went with them: tough, clever, fast-talking, handy with a girl or a gun. Film scholar Robert Sklar weaves the professional, personal, and political lives of three such city boys: Jimmy Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and John Garfield.Sklar follows the city boys from their disparate upbringings in New York City to Hollywood, where the films they made for Warner Bros. brought them fame—even while the studio often exploited their talents and fumbled their fortunes.The city boys struggled to maintain their leftist political ideologies against the communist witch hunts that embroiled Hollywood, an aspect of their careers that usually gets short shrift but which Sklar examines in the context of a politically and culturally evolving America—an America that had, in many ways, left the city boy, with his swagger and masculine bravado, behind.In their later years, with varying success, Cagney, Bogart, and Garfield sought to shed the city boy mantle that had made them stars. Sklar chronicles this bittersweet end of the city boy with thoughtful insight, examining the cinematic and cultural legacy left behind by these urban originals, and their influence on a generation of young, male moviegoers.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with City Boys: A Critical Analysis of the Cinematic Careers of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and John Garfield. To get started finding City Boys: A Critical Analysis of the Cinematic Careers of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and John Garfield, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Urban Originals When the mean streets went Hollywood, the city boy went with them: tough, clever, fast-talking, handy with a girl or a gun. Film scholar Robert Sklar weaves the professional, personal, and political lives of three such city boys: Jimmy Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and John Garfield.Sklar follows the city boys from their disparate upbringings in New York City to Hollywood, where the films they made for Warner Bros. brought them fame—even while the studio often exploited their talents and fumbled their fortunes.The city boys struggled to maintain their leftist political ideologies against the communist witch hunts that embroiled Hollywood, an aspect of their careers that usually gets short shrift but which Sklar examines in the context of a politically and culturally evolving America—an America that had, in many ways, left the city boy, with his swagger and masculine bravado, behind.In their later years, with varying success, Cagney, Bogart, and Garfield sought to shed the city boy mantle that had made them stars. Sklar chronicles this bittersweet end of the city boy with thoughtful insight, examining the cinematic and cultural legacy left behind by these urban originals, and their influence on a generation of young, male moviegoers.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with City Boys: A Critical Analysis of the Cinematic Careers of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and John Garfield. To get started finding City Boys: A Critical Analysis of the Cinematic Careers of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and John Garfield, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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