;xNLx;"an experimental stage, during which its conventions are isolated and established, a classic stage, in which the conventions reach their “equilibrium” and are mutually understood by artist and audience, an age of refinement, during which certain formal and stylistic details embellish the form, and finally a baroque (or “mannerist,” or “self-reflexive”) stage, when the form and its establishments are accented to the point where they “themselves become the “substance” or “content” of the work." ;xNLx;http://introtodh.wikispaces.com/Section3_AmericanGangsterFilms_Alex;xNLx;We then took these stages and analyzed them further by taking notes on movies and determining what factors would put a movie in a certain genre. We chose three Digital Humanities verbs to help convey our message. The verbs are; collaborate, analyze, and construct. We first collaborated within our group to figure out our scope and develop a game plan. We then took the different genres and analyzed them further by taking notes on different movies. Finally, we used our notes to construct a timeline and map using the tools we have used in class.
George Clarence Moran (August 21, 1891 – February 25, 1957), better known by the alias "Bugs" Moran, was a Chicago Prohibition-era gangster. He moved to the north side of Chicago when he was 19, where he became affiliated with several gangs. He was incarcerated three times before turning 21. On February 14, 1929, in an event which has become known as the Saint Valentine's Day massacre, seven members of his gang were gunned down in a warehouse, supposedly on the orders of Moran's rival Al Capone.[1] He has been credited with popularizing the act of driving by a rival's hangout and spraying it with gunfire, now referred to as a drive-by shooting.
George "Machine Gun Kelly" Barnes (1895 –1954) was a notorious criminal during the gangster era. This release covers the investigation of the Charles Urschel kidnapping and the resulting court case. This release covers the years 1933-1959.
Al Capone was a famous American Gangster during the early 1900's. He was involved in the liquor distribution in Chicago during the prohibition era. Capone was eventually convicted of tax evasion and was sentenced to prison in Alcatraz. He later died of cardiac arrest in 1947.
Two members of a gang write a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding that he give them money, or else they will harm his family and his shop. The butcher is afraid and upset, but he is unable to meet their demands. The gang then kidnaps his daughter, leading to a series of tense and dangerous confrontations
Directed by D.W Grifith. The film is about a married couple who becomes tangled between the feud of two gangsters. One gangster has stolen the wallet of the husband. The other tries to drug the wife. The two end up rivals and this eventually comes to a gunfight. The couple saves one gangster and gives him an alibi.
Directed by Raoul Walsh. Owen is the main character who is originally a poor orphan. He eventually rises to control of a mob. All is good until he meets the love of his life Marie. He then decides to stop the mob life and change for Marie.
The Eighteenth Amendment Passed and the Prohibition Era in the United States begins.
(Josef Von Sternberg) silent melodrama. Bank robber and jewel thief is caught and condemned to death - but escapes to hunt down his best friend and former lover, now in love with each other.
(Lewis Milestone ) cops-and robbers. An honest police captain named McQuigg becomes a tough rival to a powerful bootlegger named Scarsi, even though McQuigg's pinches never stick because Scarsi and his organization control the corrupt politicians and judges.
James "Whitey" Bulger, Boston's most notorious gangster, worked hand-in-hand with FBI agents, ratting out his Mob rivals in exchange for protection. When the partnership unraveled, he disappeared. He was arrested in Santa Monica, Calif., with his long-time girlfriend, Catherine Greig, on June 22, 2011.
The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Sooner he becomes the leader of the gangsters and known as Little Caesar, and gets closer to the great mobster Pete Montana. In a robbery of a night-club, he kills the Crime Commissioner Alvin McClure and his pal Joe witnesses the murder. When Rico orders Joe to leave his mistress Olga Strassoff, she takes a serious decision.
A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.
An ambitious and near insanely violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
Prohibition comes to an end on December 5th 1933.
Everything changed for the gangster movie genre in 1934 with the creation of the Production Code. This means of censorship set out to protect American morals from films that were not just violent, but often seemed to be romanticizing the gangster at the center of their stories. Following the implementation of the Production Code, gangster movies became a tool for presenting the social message that crime does not pay. Violence and sexuality were curtailed and sometimes entirely eliminated. The Production Code also forced filmmakers to shoot new scenes that delineated the moral lesson that gangster movies now existed to serve.
The story of one day in a slum area of New York. Noted gangster Baby Face Martin, who grew up in the neighborhood, decides to come home to visit his mother and the girl he left behind when he was sentenced to reform school. While he is there he hooks up with Dave Connell, a former friend who is now a struggling architect. At first Connell is a little disturbed that "Marty" is back in the neighborhood, but he goes along with him. When Marty sees his mother, she rejects him because of what he has become. He later sees his girl Francie, who is now a prostitute in the throes of syphilis. All this turns drives Marty to the edge, which leads to the plot to kidnap the nephew of a prominent judge. When Dave finds out about this, he decides to take matters in his own hands and try to stop Martin's plot.
The roaring twenties is known as a gangster epic starring James Cagney. These mobsters didnt have a care in the world and after winning the war everyone was happy and felt they had no worries. Prohibition was going on at this time so the main characters stated their own business of bootlegging alcohol though taxi cabs.
George Jacob Jung (born August 6, 1942), nicknamed "Boston George", was a major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s. Jung was a part of the Medellín Cartel which was responsible for up to 89 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States.[citation needed] He specialized in the smuggling of cocaine from Colombia on a large scale. His life story was portrayed in the 2001 film Blow, starring Johnny Depp.
Henry Hill was a New York City Mobster and you could learn a lot about his character from the movie "Goodfellas." Hill once said that the movie was about 95% accurate. Hill was sentenced to 10 years after beating a FBI agents non paying gambling brother. As shown in the movie people in the mob were treated differently in prison because they were able to pay off the guards so Hill only did about 4 years. When hill got out he started back in the cocaine business and got addicted himself. When finally realizing he was getting into deep he decided to become a federal witness and ended up putting away Paul Vario.
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn.
The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963 when the structure of organized crime first gained public attention. The group's operations extend from New York and the eastern seaboard to California. Its illicit activities include labor and construction racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution,[3], fraud, hijacking, pier thefts, and fencing.
1959 This factual biography of gang lord Al Capone follows his rise and fall in Chicago gangdom during the Prohibition era.
In 1967 the Motion Picture Production Codes were replaced with the MPAA and the current rating system for films in 1968
Clyde Barrow, recently out of prison, has turned to bank robbery. He meets Bonnie Parker and together the two form the nucleus of a gang of bank robbers who terrorize the southwest in the 1920s. Based on the true story of a pair of notorious bank robbers, the film personalizes them while still showing the violence that went along with them.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola. the movie perfectly describes the classic genre of American Gangster films. The movie describes the politics of a classic mob. It has the rise and fall of a gangster. Also, the movie is very violent and a lot of the movie is surrounded by violence.
In a future, dystopian New York City, turf gangs and cops rule the streets. When one gang leader tries to bring all gangs together against the cops Coney Island's The Warriors are framed for his murder and the entire city turns on them.
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel while succumbing to greed.
Directed by: Brian De Palma. The film is about the gangster Al Capone. He is running the liquor distribution during the time of prohibition in Chicago. Capone rises as a gangster and seems "Untouchable". Capone is eventually caught by police and is sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Goodfellas is a movie based on the life of Henry Hill played by Ray lLotta. It is a Baroque because it is self reflective and has the voice of Ray Liotta speaking throughout the entire movie explaining what is going on.
The story of life in South Central Los Angeles, following the fortunes or otherwise of a group of young blacks. Struggling to escape the violence and drugs, some of them opt for education, pinning their hopes on college, others are caught up in the violence that is endemic to the neighbourhood.
After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Gangster Sonny is the big man in the Bronx neighborhood of an Italian small boy named Calogero. A shooting witnessed by the boy (nicknamed C) is the starting point of a lasting bond between the gangster and the boy. Father (bus driver Lorenzo), however, disapproves. C grows up under the wing of both men, torn between his own natural honesty and his fascination with Sonny. C's neighborhood cronies get involved in theft, use of guns, and racial fights. When C falls for an African American girl, things don't get any easier. C's leap to manhood is marked by tragedy, but also by his recognition of the many faces of love.
A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by his past connections and the naive machinations of his lawyer and best friend. Hoping to raise enough money to get away from New York, Carlito Brigante takes on the job of running a nightclub, renews an affair with a dancer but old associates and old instincts suck him back into a world of violence and mistrust.
Pulp fiction would be labeled as refinement because it is a light crime movie and has a little bit of comedy to it. Vincent Vega who is played by John Travolta and Jules Winnfield Played by Uma Thurman are two hitmen that are sent out to find the man who stole their bosses briefcase.
I listed this film as a classic because it shows the rise and fall of one specific character and shows how violent the mob can be if you cross them. Robert De Niro was a perfect example of how you can be at the very top and go down to where you started with a blink of an eye.
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life to the expense of his regular one.
(David Chase) postmodern gangster Modern day morality tale about New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano, as he deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh. The main plot is a group of gangsters that perform a high risk robbery. They plan to rob the MGM Grand in Vegas. The crew pulls off the robbery but eventually gets arrested. The leader is sent to only a few months in prison and is quickly released.
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.
Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities
In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.
Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
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