Mary Pickford meets the mafia / Amy Borden -- Tough talk : early sound and the development of American gangster film vernacular, 1928-1930 / Ron Wilson -- How good boys go bad : the changing face of the gangster film in America / John E. Petty -- Making of a mobster : from myth to the crystallization of the mafia archetype in 1950s and 1960s Italian and Italian American film / Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- Moral ambiguities : the Frenchness of new Hollywood gangster families / Isolde Vanhee -- The assassin's economics of killing : money, honour and the market of murder / Fran Mason -- The 90s Hollywood gangster : generic reflections and deflections / Karine Hildenbrand -- "Based on a true story" : public enemies and the biographical gangster film / Stephen Gaunson -- The gangster in Hispanic American cinema / Philip Swanson -- The Jamaican gangster film : badman, rude boys and dons / Imruh Bakari -- When criticism meets gangster films : the Spiv cycle as oppositional aesthetics in post-war Britain / Ana Rodriguez Granell -- The patriarchal figure in the 1950s French gangster film : legendary men from a recent past / Thomas Pillard -- Mafia, mobility, and capitalism in Italy circa 1960 / Luca Peretti -- Gangsters in Turkish cinema / Hülya Önal -- Sun-drenched corruption : organized crime, global capItalism and the Mediterranean coast in recent Spanish cinema / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega -- The Russia they have lost : Russian gangster as a nostalgic hero / Lioudmila Federova -- A hint of lavender : the gay gangster in British crime cinema / Paul Elliott -- The modern British gangster film / Tom Ryall -- Death and duty : the onscreen yakuza / Elayne Chaplin -- Yakuza no onnatachi : women in Japanese gangster cinema / Laura Treglia -- Impotent liberation : post-martial law Taiwanese gangster films / Dominique Liao -- Ruling the men's den : crime, outrage and Indian women gang leaders / Sony Jalarajan Raj, Rohini Sreekumar & Nithin Kalorth -- Tsui Hark's film workshop : political cues in the gangster film 1986-1989 / James Fenwick -- The Godfather legacy : homage and allusion in transnational cinema / George S. Larke-Walsh -- Gangsta gangsta : Hong Kong triad films, 1986-2015 / Valerie Soe -- Politics, social order and hierarchies in post-millenium Hong Kong cinema / Kelvin Ke Jinde -- Jung Doo-hong and the gangster body : kkangpae in contemporary South Korean cinema / Se Young Kim.