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Gangster Genre 'Gangster?'... When talking about murders, robberies drugs, or lets just say crime as a whole we tend to feel that the courses of this is from a 'gang' or a group of people and the person who is a part of this group is then in fact a 'Gangster'. In this essay I am going to be talking about the conventions of the gangster genre and how they have changed since society has changed, or time. Gangster genre took off in parallel with the musical genre, the courtroom drama as it is also known, has a much more explicit reference to public or political events in the historical world outside film. This is only merrily changed; a good illustration is the classic film 'Scar Face' which was built around the Cuban crime wave of 1980's. When gangster films first started there was more 'documentary' by the style of the...

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