Robert Warshow was born in 1917.
Robert Warshow died in 1955.
Robert Warshow has written: 'The immediate experience' -- subject(s): Motion pictures, Popular culture 'The immediate experience' -- subject(s): Motion pictures, Popular culture
Robert Irving Warshow has written: 'Understanding the new stock market' -- subject(s): Law and legislation, New York Stock Exchange, Securities, Speculation, Stock exchanges 'Bet-a-million Gates' 'The story of Wall Street' -- subject(s): Capitalists and financiers, Speculation 'Alexander Hamilton, first American businessman'
"This is our intolerable dilemma: that failure is a kind of death and success is evil and dangerous, is-- ultimately-- impossible. The effect of the gangster film is to embody this dilemma in the person of the gangster and resolve it by his death. The dilemma is resolved because it is his death, not ours. We are safe; for the moment, we can acquiesce in our failure, we can choose to fail."--Robert Warshow in "The Gangster As Tragic Hero"
'Organs of mass culture' include the subtitle of Warshow's collected essays: The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture. Warshow is thus referencing those forms of popular culture that feed in to mass consciousness such as film, television, the popular press and magazines, etc. In this particular essay ('The Gangster as Tragic Hero'), Warshow is referring particularly to the movies, but also to comic books and pulp fiction, i.e. those that perpetuate the notion of what constitutes the gangster himself, but also his environment, his motivation, and his modus operandi.
Robert Daniel was born in 1936.
Robert Spottiswoode was born in 1596.
Robert Josephs was born in 1961.
Robert Alesch was born in 1906.
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Robert Cock was born in 1801.
Robert Nicoll was born in 1814.