Hood film
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Hood film is a film genre originating in the United States, which features aspects of urban African-American or Hispanic-American culture such as hip hop music, street gangs, honor killings, racial discrimination, organized crime, gangster, gang affiliation scenes, gangsta rap, broken families, drug use and trafficking, illegal immigration into the United States and the problems of young people coming of age or struggling amid the relative poverty and violent gang activity within such neighborhoods.
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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.
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".
Among the directors who have made films in this genre are John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles, F. Gary Gray, Hughes Brothers, and Spike Lee. 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. The genre reached the height of its popularity in the '90s due to the acclaim of the films New Jack City, Boyz n the Hood, Juice and Menace II Society. With the plethora of films both dramas and comedies, hood films of the '90s are in a sense neo-Blaxploitation films and Mexploitation films.
See also
- African-American neighborhood
- Blaxploitation, film genre
List of hood films
1970s
- The Harder They Come, 1972
- Across 110th Street, 1972
- Cooley High, 1975
- Cornbread, Earl and Me, 1975
- Pressure (film), 1976
- Brothers (1977 film), 1977
- Youngblood, 1978
- Walk Proud, 1979
- The Warriors, 1979
- Boulevard Nights, 1979
- Duke of Earl The Movie, 1979
1980s
- Babylon (film), 1980
- Good to Go, 1986
- Colors (film), 1988
- Stand and Deliver, 1988
- Last Exit To Brooklyn, 1989
- Lean On Me, 1989
- Do the Right Thing, 1989
1990s
- New Jack City, 1991
- Boyz n the Hood, 1991
- Straight Out of Brooklyn, 1991
- Deep Cover, 1992
- Juice, 1992
- South Central, 1992
- Menace II Society, 1993
- Blood in Blood Out, 1993
- Dead Homiez, 1993
- Strapped, 1993
- Poetic Justice, 1993
- Sugar Hill, 1994
- Mi Vida Loca, 1994
- Fresh, 1994
- Jason's Lyric, 1994
- Tales from the hood, 1995
- Clockers, 1995
- Dangerous Minds, 1995
- Dead Presidents, 1995
- Friday (film), 1995
- New Jersey Drive, 1995
- La Haine, 1995
- Sunset Park, 1996
- Original Gangstas, 1996
- Bullet, 1996
- Set It Off (film), 1996
- The Substitute, 1996
- One Eight Seven, 1997
- Ma 6-T va crack-er, 1997
- Squeeze,1997
- First Time Felon, 1997
- Always Outnumbered, 1998
- He Got Game, 1998
- Streetwise, 1998
- Caught Up, 1998
- Belly, 1998
- Slam, 1998
- In Too Deep,1999
- Colorz of Rage, 1999
- Light it Up, 1999
- Hot Boyz, 1999
- Whiteboyz, 1999
2000s
- Baller Blockin', 2000
- Turn it up, 2000
- Tha Eastsidaz, 2000
- Baby Boy, 2001
- Gang Tapes, 2001
- How High, 2001
- Snipes, 2001
- Blue Hill Avenue, 2001
- Hardball, 2001
- Training Day, 2001
- Shottas, 2002
- Paper Soldiers, 2002
- Barbershop, 2002
- City of God, 2002
- 8 Mile, 2002
- State Property, 2002
- Empire, 2002
- Paid in Full, 2002
- Ride or Die, 2003
- Doing Hard Time, 2004
- Never Die Alone, 2004
- Divided City, 2004
- Bullet Boy, 2004
- Back in the Day, 2005
- Tsotsi, 2005
- Hustle & Flow, 2005
- Coach Carter, 2005
- State Property 2, 2005
- Four Brothers, 2005
- Get Rich or Die Tryin', 2005
- ATL, 2006
- Gridiron Gang, 2006
- Waist Deep, 2006
- Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club, 2006
- Killa Season, 2006
- QuinceaƱera, 2006
- Kidulthood, 2006
- Freedom Writers, 2007
- American Gangster, 2007
- The American Dream, 2007
- Tournament of Dreams, 2007
- Weapons, 2007
- I Tried, 2007
- Death Toll, 2008
- Adulthood, 2008
- Street Kings, 2008
- Gran Torino, 2008
- Talento de Barrio, 2008
- Streets of Blood, 2008
- Baby (2008 film), 2008
- Fallout, 2008
- Before I Self Destruct (film), 2009
- Notorious, 2009
- Brooklyn's Finest, 2009
- A Day in the Life (film), 2009
- Dough Boys, 2009
- La Mission, 2009
2010s
- Lottery Ticket, 2010
- Gun, 2010
- Ghetto Stories: The Movie, 2010
- King Of Paper Chasin, 2010
- Gun Hill Road, 2011
- Snow on tha Bluff, 2012
- Ill Manors, 2012
- End of Watch, 2012
- LUV, 2012
- Snitch, 2013
- Fruitvale Station, 2013
- The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, 2013
- Percentage, 2013
- iNumber Number, 2013
- Crossed the Line, 2014
- Girlhood, 2014
- The Guvnors, 2014
- Blame It On the Streets, 2014
- Imperial Dreams, 2014
- Dope, 2015
- Brotherly Love, 2015
- Straight Outta Compton, 2015
- Chiraq, 2015
- Brotherhood, 2016
- Barbershop: The Next Cut, 2016
- Moonlight, 2016
- Deuces, 2017
- Lowriders, 2017
- All Eyez on Me, 2017
- Plug Love, 2017
- Avenge the Crows, 2017
- True to the Game (film), 2017
- Detroit, 2017
- Kings, 2017
- Honor Up, 2018
- White Boy Rick, 2018
- Yardie (film), 2018
- City of Lies, 2018
- The Hate U Give (film), 2018
- Tales from the Hood 2, 2018
- Blindspotting, 2018
- Pimp, 2018
- Blood Brother (2018 film), 2018
- Canal Street, 2019
- Compton's Finest, 2019
- We Die Young, 2019
- Brian Banks, 2019
- Dead End, 2019
- Bel-Air, 2019
- Gully, 2019
2020s
- King of the South , 2020
- DPG 4 Life Tha Movie, 2020
- Equal Standard, 2020
- Cut Throat City, 2020
- Charm City King, 2020
- True to the Game 2, 2020
- It's About T.I.M.E., 2020
- The Tax Collector, 2020
- La Esperanza, 2020
Parodies
- House Party
- Class Act
- Fear of a Black Hat
- CB4
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
- High School High
- Malibu's Most Wanted
- Death of a Dynasty
- Gangsta Rap: The Glockumentary
- Dance Flick
- Anuvahood
- School Dance (film)
- Grow House
- Bodied
- She Bells
See also
- Blaxploitation, film genre