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The Invisibles saison 1

le Dimanche 01 juin 2008 à 08:29 par Matt

The Invisibles est une série produite pour BBC One, filmée en Irlande et en Irlande du Nord. Maurice Riley (Anthony Head), ouvreur de coffre-forts, et Syd Woolsey (Warren Clarke), guetteur, sont de vieux amis qui reviennent de la Costa del Crime pour s’installer dans un petit village de pêcheurs du Devon. Ils veulent passer [...] → Lire la suite


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Repression and Censorship

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:11 par Matt

Organization of the Repression With John Edgar Hoover, the FBI had certain successes in its fight against Organized Crime. The FBI was/is a federal agency that could/can work across the territory. Police forces were sometimes ill-trained because they faced very well organized murderers. 1933 saw the creation of the Bureau of Investigation (Justice), the Prohibition Bureau [...] → Lire la suite


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Evolution of Organized Crime

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:11 par Matt

Evolution of Gangsterism 1929 : Wall Street crash. The Prohibition is an attempt to decrease the revenue of alcohol. 1933 : election of Franklin Roosevelt, who sets up the New Deal. 1934 : Repeal of the Prohibition. Roosevelt had realized the importance of the ethnic vote, and especially the Catholic vote. Creation of the Work Progress Administration (W.P.A.) : the state provides the [...] → Lire la suite


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Organized Crime : Expression and Repression

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:11 par Matt

Introduction There is a parallel between Organized Crime and the movie industry. Organized Crime was one of the ways for social climbing, of getting out of poverty and ethnic matters. In the main Hollywood studios, many directors were ethnics : Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Mayer (M.G.M. studios : Metro Goldwyn Mayer), David O. Selznick, Charles Chaplin… The [...] → Lire la suite

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Organized Crime and the Prohibition

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:11 par Matt

Introduction You cannot really rely on newspapers articles. Recently, it featured the confessions of repenting organized crime members, i.e. the distort truth for their own interests. The police distorted the figures to get credit and money from the Federal Government. Organized crime was considered as a kind of un-american activity. Since more gangsters were ethnics (Jews, [...] → Lire la suite

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Organized Crime in America

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:11 par Matt

Organized Crime in America (1929 - 1951) 1929 : Wall Street crash, which forced gangsters to find a new wy of making money in a time of recession. 1951 : middle of the Cold War. Kefauver hearings started the huge mystification of the Mafia, discovering that organized crime was still on in the U.S. First TV debates on organized [...] → Lire la suite