Regarding it as a genre film.

Analyzing it both textually and contextually. I've got a bunch of books sitting next to me....Dreams and Dead Ends, Scorsese on Scorsese, Crime Films, Easy Riders Raging Bulls...Goodfellas on the DVD player, and I think I'm actually going to enjoy writing my last college paper.

The topic is:

How does Goodfellas follow the conventions of the crime genre film? How does it break them?

Anyone got any tips for me before I dip into everything?

(Yeah, I do my own work...just looking for any references/viewpoints you guys may have before I start).

I'm thinking I'm going to touch on the following:

- Post-Godfather crime film
- Iconography of Goodfellas
- Freeze-frames, multiple voiceovers, etc.
- The rules/politics of the crime family in film

Etc, etc.