gangster films relationship to american ideology had specific ideas realating to... (4)
capitalism, the american dream,individualism and the self made man
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marxists perspective provide a useful framework for analysing the what type of film genre?
Gangster films.
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Why do they like to look at gangster films?
Gangsters are represented as coming from wc mostly disenfrachised backgrounds.
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This message is always very hegemonic 'If you run off the rails by leading a life of crime, you have to pay, usually with your life; but if you work hard and remain honest life can be kinder to you' this reinforces what?
the american dream
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fairytale allude to deep hopes for material improvement why?
Because they present illusions of happiness to come and because they provide social paradigms that overlap nearly perfectly with day dreams of a perfect life..
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marxist example of film
fight club
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Ellis argues that fight club rages against the hypocrisy of a society that ...
continually promises use the impossible : fame, beauty,immortality, wealth, life without pain.
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marxists perspective provide a useful framework for analysing the what type of film genre?
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Gangster films.
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Why do they like to look at gangster films?
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This message is always very hegemonic 'If you run off the rails by leading a life of crime, you have to pay, usually with your life; but if you work hard and remain honest life can be kinder to you' this reinforces what?
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fairytale allude to deep hopes for material improvement why?
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