CRIM 4654 Lecture 18: Lecture 18
Document Summary
Immigrant criminals: prohibition changed audience attitudes towards criminals, film production linked to organized crime, mystique of the criminal, redemption. Immigrant criminals production code (cid:862)talkies(cid:863: split audience identification. Interplay between fact and fiction: creation of worldview and perceptions of crime for both ordinary, law-abiding citizens as well as for gangster, real-life gangsters imitate fictional gangsters, real-life gangsters influence the production of gangster films, e. g. The making of the godfather (1972) and the italian-american civil rights league (omerta: e. g. varese: yakuza choose to represent themselves as benevolent patriarchs and as a positive force in society rather than as anti-heroes. In 1911, there was a revolt in china: triads became an underground criminal organization, triads put pressure on specific actors and agents to act in their financed movies. vs. triads: examples of triads, 1992: show business against violence, hk films represent gangsters as heroic.
