Books by Daniel Finn

A history of "the Troubles": the radical politics of Republicanism.

The only comprehensive guide to the crime films of the forties and fifties, this volume focuses on the major events that shaped and molded the genre: war, alienation, drugs, and organized crime.

The immense popularity of movies has its roots in the silent films of the early 1900s, this being especially true of the crime genre.

Recent crime films such as Scarface, the Dirty Harry series, and The Godfather have captured the American imagination, but they owe a large debt to the early crime talkies such as The Public Enemy, Paul Muni's Scarface, and Little Caesar.