The American gangster film from Little Caesar to Pulp Fiction

The historical phases of the American gangster film:
• The genre's archetypes of the early 1930s: Little Caesar (1930), The Public Enemy (1931) and Scarface (1932)
• The government agent films of the second half of the 1930s e.g., G Men (1935)
• The 'displaced gangster film of the late 1930s/early 1940s: e.g., High Sierra (1941)
• The gangster film's 'intersection' with film noir in the 1940s and 1950s: e.g., The Killers (1946)
• The post-classical gangster film since the 1960s, e.g., Point Blank (1967), The Godfather (1972), GoodFellas (1990)
• The post-modern gangster film, e.g., Pulp Fiction (1992)
Genre and the gangster film (including sub-genres, e.g., 'heist' and 'caper' movies, 'biopics')
The gangster film and film style
The gangster film and the American film industry
Censorship and the Production Code (PCA)
The gangster film, politics and society
Critical responses to the gangster film.