Urban Realism

Kidulthood, Boys in the hood and Bullet boy all fit in to the genre of urban realism.The genre usually involves boys often ''thugs'' that come from usually poor working or lower class.They are often young teenagers who hang around in gangs and commit crimes.They are usually troubled and have bad attitude.They are usually set in the streets in the rougher parts of the city,they also usually live in councel estates.I have compared both trailers of two films bullet boy and boys in the hood and they have many similarities despite one of them being in Britain the other in America, this is because its a stereotypical potrayel of crime ridden cities and usually people of african heritage.

Western film genre

Hi welcome to my blog, I'm researching urban realism and discussing different film genres, identifying they're convetions and iconography.

Western movies are usually set in the desert in usually southern america ,they normally involve cowboys and horses.They would also involve guns and rival gangs that have 'shoots outs'.This is what we expect to see in a typical western movies because we have a good understanding on the film genre.The good, bad and the ugly is a typical western film that includes many of the genre'sconventions.The good, bad and the ugly is a spaghetti western film which is a subgenre that involves italian film makers.The weird west is used to describe a western film crossed with another genre for example horror, fantasy, thriller.