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Discuss how the audience's expectations of the gangster genre are considered in the extract from Goodfellas.
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Discuss how the audience's expectations of the gangster genre are considered in the extract from Goodfellas Genre is a very important concept in film studies. A genre is a type of film. Genre is very important because it helps us to compare similar films and see patterns and similarities between them. It also helps audiences by classifying films, giving them a list of what they can expect to see in a film of that genre. Genre can be classified as Narrative Structure, Iconography, Themes and Sound. The audience's expectations of the genre can also be split into these categories. Narrative Structure, in a gangster film the audience expects to see a linear narrative structure, with the story going in chronological order. Gangster films may have many themes but the main theme expected of the genre is the rise and fall of the main character, generally the "don". The fall of this...
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