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Since the early 1990s and throughout the decade the “hood film” has and continues to create, elongate, and perpetuate stereotypes of Blackness, poverty, and/or Othered masculinity rather than critique a social inequity through its constant representation of Black men and their push away from whiteness, its portrayal of the poor and “voiceless”, and its stance of one-sidedness in regards to the topic of “the hood” and its inhabitants specifically shown in Los Angeles films such as Set It Off, Boyz N the Hood, and the Friday series.
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Stereotypes of Blacks in the mainstream have become incredibly binary.
That clips displays a hood not like most hoods, with crisp, vibrant colors, working woman not in subservient roles for the most part, and a less gritty "realism."
Friday (1995)
Set it Off was a reactive movie because it was made to combat all the same hood films that were coming out before it about men and their lives in "the ghetto"
It also combats notions of what it is to be masculine i.e. Cleo's obvious "gangsta" qualities and demeanor, which is displayed as somewhat masculine.
Also, the act of bank robbery in film is usually a male thing like in another hood film set in Harlem, Dead Presidents
Set it Off (1996)
Black masculinity is quite often the key
component in most hood films.
Not only do they have to deal with
Black ideas of masculinity, but also
Euro-centric ideas of manliness and how it affects Black adolescents.
Illustrates the relationship between gun violence and Black masculinity
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Nowadays, rich, upper class people have been slowly moving back into the cities and acquiring the homes, usually by dubious means, of Black people and people of color or lower class Whites. Or gentrification, which by no means is a new concept or practice:
A hood film is a piece of cinema that focuses on a condensed area of urban living, usually "the ghetto" or regions that are predominantly inhabited by people of color and the plot usually revolves around everyday events and the living situations and social environment of those inhabitants.
In this case, I will be focusing on films revolving around African American hood films such as Boyz n the Hood, Set it Off, and Friday
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