Gangster Films

           This course is the first film course I have ever taken. Before taking the film communications class, I absolutely no idea as t...

            Out of all the gangster films I have seen, one particular scene sticks out in my memory. In the film, The Godfather, the baptis...

Scorsese’s films are somewhat sporadic in terms of different genres, as well as themes. He has directed dozens of films with different...

The gangster genre is a product of a much larger genre. Crime genre is very similar to the gangster genre. Crime genre films typically in...

              Scorsese’s use of cinematography, mise-en-scene, and sound is what seperates him from all directors. Out of the dozens of film...

E diting may be thought of as the coordination of one shot with the next. A shot is one or more exposed frames in a series on a continuou...

Mise-en-scene is a term used to signify the director’s control over what appears in the film frame. Mise-en-scene includes those aspects ...