Hood film is a film genre originating in the United States which features aspects of urban African-American culture such as hip hop music, street gangs, racial discrimination, poverty, and the problems of young black men coming of age or struggling in a predominantly white society. Such films predominantly feature African-American actors.
The prototypical hood films are 'Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society, whose serious storytelling approach popularized the type. As early as 1996, however, hood films were seen as a stereotype against which black filmmakers constantly struggled to avoid comparison or compartmentalization. The genre has also been parodied with such films as Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.
Analysis[edit]
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]
Non-American hood films[edit]
A Jamaican film of this genre has been made, such as Shottas. British films of this genre have also been made, such as ,Bullet Boy, Kidulthood, Adulthood and the parody Anuvahood. The French films La Haine, Ma 6-T va crack-er, Yamakasi and Banlieue 13 are also examples of this genre. John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles, Hughes Brothers, and Spike Lee are examples of directors in this genre.
List of hood films[edit]
- Boyz n the Hood, 1991
- New Jack City, 1991
- Straight Out of Brooklyn, 1991
- Trespass, 1992
- Deep Cover, 1992
- Juice, 1992
- South Central, 1992
- Menace II Society, 1993
- Blood In Blood Out, 1993
- Strapped,1993
- Poetic Justice, 1993
- Crooklyn, 1994
- Above the Rim, 1994
- Sugar Hill, 1994
- Fresh, 1994
- Jason's Lyric, 1994
- Bad Boys,1995
- Clockers, 1995
- Dangerous Minds, 1995
- Dead Presidents, 1995
- New Jersey Drive, 1995
- La Haine, 1995
- Bullet, 1996
- Set It Off, 1996
- One Eight Seven, 1997
- Ma 6-T va crack-er, 1997
- Gridlock'd, 1997
- Always Outnumbered, 1998
- He Got Game, 1998
- Caught Up, 1998
- Belly, 1998
- Slam, 1998
- In Too Deep, 1999
- The Wood, 1999
- Hot Boyz, 1999
- The Wrecking Crew, 1999
- Baller Blockin', 2000
- Turn It Up, 2000
- Baby Boy, 2001
- Blue Hill Avenue, 2001
- Training Day, 2001
- Shottas, 2002
- Paper Soldiers, 2002
- Barbershop, 2002
- 8 Mile, 2002
- State Property, 2002
- Empire, 2002
- Paid In Full, 2002
- Narc, 2002
- Bad Boys II, 2003
- The Job, 2003
- Never Die Alone, 2004
- Bullet Boy, 2004
- Shooting Gallery, 2005
- Harsh Times, 2005
- Back in the Day, 2005
- State Property 2, 2005
- Four Brothers, 2005
- Get Rich or Die Tryin', 2005
- Dirty, 2005
- ATL, 2006
- Gridiron Gang, 2006
- Waist Deep, 2006
- Killa Season, 2006
- Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club, 2006
- Kidulthood, 2006
- Freedom Writers, 2007
- Adulthood, 2008
- Street Kings, 2008
- Gran Torino, 2008
- Before I Self Destruct, 2009
- Sin Nombre, 2009
- Brooklyn's Finest, 2009
- "A Day In The Life", 2009
- 1 Day, 2009
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References[edit]
- ^ 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.
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