1. AMERICAN CINEMA, AMERICAN CULTURE:
THE GANGSTER FILM
Alex M.
Trevor P.
Paramveer P.
Julia R..
Tommy Y.

2. THE GANGSTER FILM
• Developed around the sinister actions of criminals or gangsters
• Highlight the life of a crime figure or a crime's victim(s)
• Glorify the rise and fall of a particular criminal(s)
• They are morality tales
• "The end of Tom Powers is the end of every hoodlum. The
Public Enemy is not a man, it is not a character, it is a problem
we must all face.“ –Public Enemy 1930’s

3. THE GUIDELINES
• Collaborate ,Analyze , Construct
• We chose to Analyze our films using
• The four stages discussed by Thomas Schatz in Hollywood Genres
• an experimental stage, during which its conventions are isolated and established
• a classic stage, in which the conventions reach their “equilibrium”
and are mutually understood by artist and audience,
• an age of refinement,
during which certain formal and stylistic details embellish the form, and finally
• a baroque stage, when the form and its
establishments are accented to the point where they “themselves become the "substance” or
“content” of the work.“
• We Constructed
• Tiki Toki timeline
• Google map

4. ANALYZE
• Experimental
• First real Gangster films started in this stage
• Before Gangster films really got popular
• Classic
• Very violent films
• Organized crime
• Mob portrayed as very tight-knit family
• Huge on loyalty, if you weren't loyal to the mob you were killed
• Most of these had rise of one person to his rapid downfall
• Age of Refinement
• Portrayed mobsters in a better light
• Focus on politics of mob instead of violence
• Baroque
• Self reflective
• explains Gangster films and politics
• Details of the characters thought

5. TIKI-TOKI TIMELINE

6. GOOGLE MAPS MAP

7. CONCLUSIONS FORMED
• Found correlation with real-time gangsters and gangster films.
• Also found a correlation between homicide Rate. Do the Movies Cause violence?

8. Q AND A