Analysis Of The Gangster Genre

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| |In your analysis of the gangster genre you should also consider the following: | | |
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| |Codes and Conventions | | |
| |Iconography | | |
| |Findings from both your content and textual analysis | | |
| |Narrative structure | | …show more content…
The most famous example of this must be the shower scene in | | |
| |Hitchcock’s Psycho. Being knifed to death is particularly frightening because you can see the | | |
| |person killing you. It’s not like shooting, which is done at a distance and is a much more | | |
| |cold-blooded way of killing. This is why the gun is the conventional weapon in gangster movies | | |
| |like Scarface.’ | | |
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| |elucidated in such a way as to draw out of the example precisely what it is about it that |ρ | |
| |exemplifies the point it illustrates. | | |
| |Examples will refer to precisely defined elements or details of the films studied. In discussing | |