The document summarizes how gangster culture has influenced gangster films over time from the 1930s to the 1990s. It discusses early films like Scarface (1932) that were influenced by Prohibition-era gangsters like Al Capone and the violence of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Later, Scarface (1983) drew from the cocaine epidemic and gang violence in 1980s Miami. Finally, Menace II Society (1993) represented the rise of black and Hispanic street gangs in the 1990s through themes of racial tension, violence, and the hip hop feud between Tupac and Biggie.