I. The golden age: the "classic" gangster film : 1. Little Caesar

2. The public enemy

II. Dark transformations: the decent into noir : 3. High sierra

4. The killers

II. The genre's "enlightenment": the stress and strain for affirmation : 5. Kiss of death

6. Force of evil

7. Gun crazy

IV. Going gray and going crazy: disequilibrium and change at midcentury : 8. D.O.A.

9. White heat

V. Focus on feeling: "seeing" through the fifties : 10. Pickup on south street

11. 99 River street, The Phoenix city story, The Brother Rico

12. Kiss me deadly

VI. Contemporary colorations: the modernist perspective : 13. Bonnie and Clyde

14. Point blank

15. The godfather, godfather 2, and after.