Conventions of Crime

For conventions of crime, we looked at 6 different crime related genres of film, which were action, film noir, american gangster, detective, spy and police. So we took a look at 6 openings to the said film genres and looked at how the opening scenes told you it was action, or film noir, etc. For film noir, we watched the opening to "Sunset Boulevard", american gangster was "Scarface", detective was "Poirot", police was "Hot Fuzz" and action was "Lethal Weapon".