Hoodlum Movies

PETER STANFIELD is a professor in the department of film at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. He is the author of several books, including The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema (Rutgers University Press).

• ContentsIntroduction: hoodlum poses and gestures1          Strange Excitements: the topical and the sensational2          Getting Out of Town: the cycle unfolds3          After Easy Rider: modulations and curious combinations4          Nazi Satanists, Viet Vets and M'cycle Mamas (and other such pulp delights)Conclusion: buried in the sand foreverAcknowledgmentsIndex

"When Peter Stanfield publishes a book, it's a cult cinephile's cause for celebration. Outside of the woefully out-of-print Big Book of Biker Movies, this is the best work on the subgenre yet."— Flick Attack"No one has gone as far as Stanfield in conceptualizing the notion of the film 'cycle.' Hoodlum Movies is a strong, interesting, and original look at the biker genre, an understudied set of films."— William Straw, author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50's America"When Peter Stanfield publishes a book, it's a cult cinephile's cause for celebration. Outside of the woefully out-of-print Big Book of Biker Movies, this is the best work on the subgenre yet."— Bookgasm"Chronicle of Higher Education New Scholarly Books Weekly Book List," compiled by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education