"The Gangster As Tragic Hero"
Essay
By: Robert Warshow
Date: 1948
Source: Warshow, Robert. The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962, 85–88.
About the Author: Robert Warshow (1917–1955) was an influential writer on popular culture who was born in New York City. He graduated from the University of Michigan and served as a translator and research analyst for the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he returned to New York to work as an editor and writer for Commentary magazine. He wrote about popular culture, especially the movies, for Commentary, The Nation, and Partisan Review. He died of a heart attack at age thirty-seven.
Introduction
Warshow wrote for the so-called little magazines, that is, small circulation journals that provided intelligent analysis and honest...
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