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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I
1 - Scarface Lives Among Us
MAJOR IMMIGRANT SMUGGLING RING IS BROKEN IN PHOENIX, POLICE SAY
MAN SHOWS “SCARFACE” T-SHIRT AND DEMANDS CHECK AT BANK
OUT WITH OLD, IN WITH THE TEEN TOUCH
“SCARFACE” POSTER NEAR 37 POUNDS OF COKE, DETECTIVE SAYS
“SCARFACE MANSION” TO BECOME CLINIC
2 - The Movie
3 - Making a Scarface
De Palma Commits
The Casting
Shooting Scarface in Miami
Shooting Scarface in Los Angeles
Getting the Accent Right
Ego Clashes—Um, Creative Differences—On the Set
The Ratings Controversy: An X-Rated Scarface
Industry Reaction
4 - Four Creators
The Director
The Screenwriter
The Star
The Ingenue
5 - Scarface Music
Scarface as Saturday Night Fever—Dream
The DVD Extra: “Origin of a Hip Hop Classic”
The Rules
The Music Inspired by Scarface CD
Scarface Hip-Hop: Beyond the Movie and DVD
MTV’s Cribs
Music and Politics
The Legacy of Scarface Music
Scarface’s “My Mind Playing Tricks on Me” and “On My Block”
Scarface Invents Gangsta Rap?
PART II
6 - The Origins: Howard Hawks’s Scarface
The Scarface Nation (1932)
Scarface; X Marks the Spot
Dolls and Molls
Scarface on the Rise
The Family Scarface
Scarface Power Grabs and Business Decisions: First You Get the Money …
The World Is Theirs
Crosses and Double-crosses
Scarface’s Sister Obsession
The Fall of Scarface
The End. But Not Quite …
7 - The Origins: Armitage Trail’s Scarface
8 - Alterna-Scarfaces: Movies,TV Shows, Novels, and Comic Books
Movies and TV
Other Movie Scarfaces
Comic Books
Scarface Novelizations
9 - President Scarface
10 - Scarface: It’s Money, It’s Women, It’s Power
The Women in Scarface
“Say Good-bye to the Bad Guy!” … and His Girl
What Happens to Elvira?
Going Home, Leaving Home: Mama Montana and Sister Gina
The Violence in Scarface
The Motel Scene
11 - A Meaning of Scarface
Also by Ken Tucker
Appendix
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Notes
Copyright Page
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