Hood film

Hood film
Director John Singleton, one of the pioneers of the genre.
Years active1990s
LocationUnited States
Major figuresHughes Brothers, Ernest Dickerson, F. Gary Gray, Spike Lee, John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles
InfluencesBlaxploitation, L.A. Rebellion, Mexploitation, Race film

Hood film is a 1990s film genre originating in the United States, which features aspects of urban African American or Hispanic American culture. John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles, F. Gary Gray, Hughes Brothers, and Spike Lee are all directors who have created work typically classified as part of this genre.[1] The genre has been identified as a sub-genre of the gangster film genre.[2]

The genre has since spread outside the U.S., to places such as the United Kingdom and Canada.[3][4]

Hood films have been variously described under a wide-array of names by critics, such as 'street-gang', 'ghetto-centric', 'action-crime-adventure', 'gangsta rap films', 'black action films', 'new black realism', 'new jack cinema', and 'black urban cinema'. Spike Lee disparagingly referred to the genre as 'hiphop, urban drama, ghetto film'.[5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Forman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-07-31. Retrieved 2022-07-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "An Introduction To UK Hood Movies". Complex. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  4. ^ Working on screen : representations of the working class in Canadian cinema. Malek Khouri, Darrell Varga. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-4426-8368-6. OCLC 666901575.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ deWaard, Andrew (2012). Richardson, Chris; Skott-Myhre, Hans A. (eds.). "The Hood is Where the Heart is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film" (PDF). Intellect. ISBN 978-1-84150-479-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  6. ^ Munby, Jonathan (2007), Chapman, James; Glancy, Mark; Harper, Sue (eds.), "From Gangsta to Gangster: The Hood Film's Criminal Allegiance with Hollywood", The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 166–179, doi:10.1007/9780230206229_12, ISBN 978-0-230-20622-9, retrieved 2022-08-01
  7. ^ Fisher, Celeste A. (2006). Black on black : urban youth films and the multicultural audience. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-5688-3. OCLC 834500673.
  8. ^ Screening the city. Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice. London: Verso. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85984-690-2. OCLC 51068449.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)