![]() ![]() Through playing the Game of Outlaw, young men enact an outsider masculinity that is outside the boundaries of the law and which defines masculinity as something displayed on the outside of men's bodies, and through one's toughness in everyday interaction. This chapter examines the rules that seem to guide all young men's participation in crime or the Game of Outlaw. This paper focuses on the study, portrayal and execution styles of three such themes, Revenge, Masculinity and Glorification of Violence and the motifs in the film The Godfather View full-text Betrayal, revenge, masculinity, morality, and violence are some of the predominant themes which drive the film The Godfather. The Godfather, a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola exposes the dark side of the American dream. Gangster films, when viewed from an American perspective are to achieve the "American dream" that is to be rich and successful with the most power, one can obtain. Motifs and symbols add structures and contrasts to effectively convey them. Films of gangster genre are strongly driven by themes such as power, loyalty, betrayal, rivalry, morality, revenge, masculinity, materialism etc. Hollywood gangster films in the 1930's had liberally drawn inspiration from the newspapers and books of the era. ![]() These films primarily have stacks of money, guns, flashy cars, illegal goods, cluster of goons, crime families, and a plot with a central theme coupled with. Mob and gangster films are a sub-genre of crime films and deals with the mafia and their organized crime focusing on rise and fall of power. The representations are also still associated with the traditional ideas of women.Ĭrime films have been the most enduringly popular genre since the dawn of sound era in Hollywood. As a result, it is found that the character Snow White and a number of other women characters still become victims of violence. It also applies gender theories and Barthes's semiotic theory in answering the research question. A number of disciplines in the forms of theory and approach are used to analyze the data. To move the discussion further, this research examines how the idea of women as victims of violence in the movie is maintained. In the same year, a movie entitled Snow White and the Huntsman appears as the remake of the written fairy tale Snow White in the form of an action-adventure movie. However, in 20th century, many movies are changing the perspective by presenting women and action and break the traditional myth. They provide gender representations and convey the idea of masculine and feminine- myths of how to be men and women. Fairy tales as one of the first cultural products consumed by the American society are a medium with an influential presence in the issue. ![]() Gender representation is one of the most prominent subjects of discussion in American society. This paper focuses on the study, portrayal and execution styles of three such themes, Revenge, Masculinity and Glorification of Violence and the motifs in the film The Godfather Gangster films, when viewed from an American perspective are to achieve the " American dream " that is to be rich and successful with the most power, one can obtain. These films primarily have stacks of money, guns, flashy cars, illegal goods, cluster of goons, crime families, and a plot with a central theme coupled with violence. Crime films have been the most enduringly popular genre since the dawn of sound era in Hollywood. ![]()
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