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Hood film is a film genre originating in the United States in the late 1980s, which features aspects of primarily African American urban culture, including hip hop music, street gangs, racial discrimination, and the problems of young black men coming of age or struggling with a predominantly white society. In film theory, genre refers to the primary method of film categorization. ...
An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...
Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ...
A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, in current usage, engage in illegal activities. ...
The prototypical hood films are Boyz in the Hood and Menace II Society, whose serious storytelling approach popularized the type. As early as 1996, however, hood films was seen as a stereotype against which black filmmakers constantly struggled to avoid comparison or compartmentalization. The film title, Boyz-N-The Hood, is taken from the name of a classic hip-hop song performed by Eazy-E as a member of the group N.W.A. For the Southern rap quartet, see Boyz N Da Hood. ...
Menace II Society is a 1993 American hood film and the directorial debut of twin brothers Allen and Albert Hughes. ...
British films of this genre are also being made such as Bullet Boy. Bullet Boy is a 2004 film directed by Saul Dibb, written by Saul Dibb and Catherine Johnson, and stars Ashley Walters. ...
John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles and the Hughes Brothers are examples of directors in this genre. John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ...
Mario Van Peebles (b. ...
The Hughes Brothers is the collective named for twin brothers Allen and Albert Hughes (b. ...
Several critical essays about the genre were written by Paula J. Massood, now a professor at Brooklyn College. Critic Murray Forman notes that the "spatial logic" of hip-hop culture, with heavy emphasis on place-based identity, locates "black youth urban experience within an environment of continual proximate danger", and this quality defines the hood film.[1] In a 1992 essay in Cineaction, Canadian critic Rinaldo Walcott identified the hood film's primary concerns as issues of masculinity and "(re)gaining manhood for black men".[2] Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York. ...
References - ^ Murray Forman (2002). The 'Hood Comes First: race, space, and place in rap and hip-hop. Wesleyan University Press.
- ^ John McCullough (2006). "Rude and the Representation of Class Relations in Canadian Film", Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema. University of Toronto Press.
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. ...
The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
Sources - "Menace II Society" - Cineaste review pointing out several aspects of the "hood film" genre
- Which Way to the Promised Land?: Spike Lee's Clockers and the Legacy of the African American City, Paula J. Massood, African American Review, Summer 2001
- Lowering the bar: State of black film at the moment, by the Unknown Film Critic; defines hood film as one of three predominant subgenres of African-American film
Cineaste is a film magazine published quarterly. ...
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