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In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell.

Inventing the Public Enemy The Gangster in

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 April 1996
      ISBN-13 9780226732183
      978-0226732183
      ISBN-10 0226732185
      Also in:
      Cultural studies Organized crime

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell.

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