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"""Geselischaft and the affect of urban life in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver"" is a three page paper that discusses Martin Scorsese's seminal film Taxi Driver and hopes to capture Geselischaft and the shift of popular social values to the tumultuous new values of the film's protagonist, Travis Bickle. "

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Geselischaft and the affect of urban life in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver Herbert Gans contented that the city is a mosaic of many lifestyles. These lifestyles always threaten to collide in an inevitable fashion and reinforce the concept of Geselischaft. This German term strives to articulate the conditioning of a human being to be self-centered and self-serving, altering a human's nature so that they will "survive" the rigors of a modern lifestyle. Geselischaft especially holds poignancy within an urbanized society, and has been explored by many filmmakers who hope to capture this phenomenon as the essence of one's modern selfhood. Martin Scorsese's seminal film Taxi Driver is no exception to this, and

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