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movies  

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  • Film, as a reflection of society, conveys the hopes and anxieties of the culture in which it is created. In American film, criminal characters—mob bosses, robbers, contract killers, gangsters—have become posterized icons. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Movies]

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