![]() Blood In Blood Out (1993, Taylor Hackford) So, despite the economic growth felt during the 90s, there was a group of elements that might have led to the genre’s revival, which, of course, affected film as we shall see in this list.ġ5. The Los Angeles riots brought attention once more to police methods and organized crime, the hip-hop culture also emphasized the gang culture, the savings and loans crisis put under focus the corruption of figures and institutions connected with the nation’s law and order (The Keating Five). ![]() Video games started including new features and genres such as the first-person shooter. Pistone, “Casino” by Nicholas Pileggi, “The Last Don” by Mario Puzo). Books concentrated on organized crime became successful (“Donnie Brasco” by Joseph D. ![]() This trend might have been the result of perhaps a handful of events that happened in the end of the 1980s and during the 90s that had an impact on the United States, including the end of the Cold War.Īmerican television started to concentrate more on the production of crime dramas (“Law & Order”, “Homicide: Life on the Street”, “The Sopranos”, “Wiseguy”). Thus, the concept of organized crime within a family or a small circle, the values of tradition and above all loyalty were specially emphasized in the materials produced during the 90s. There was a restoration of the interest in the mafia, particularly the Italian mafia and New York City as the central setting for these stories. In the 1990s, there was a revival of the gangster genre, not only in film but also in the literary circle. This is the third installment on the series American Gangster Films (1970s – 1990s).
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