Prime-time America: Life on and behind the television screen

Life on and behind the Television Screen.

Prime-Time America: Life On and Behind the Television Screen

Humor & Entertainment

Robert Sklar

Television

Oxford University Press

<p>Often presented as a gangster, newspaper reporter, or private eye, the "city boy" seemed the quintessential product of urban America, although he was more a model for his audience than a mirror of social actuality. While blending the stories of the professional and political lives of Cagney, Bogart, and Garfield into one fascinating narrative, Robert Sklar probes the cultural forces that produced this vivid cultural icon and examines its power over masculine self-definition.</p>

City Boys

Movies

Princeton University Press

A World History of Film

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

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