Friday, 16 November 2012

To what extent are your chosen texts typical of their genre?

Sin city is a film based on basin city which contains violence, murders, love, heros, villains and lots of toucher. All of these things are conventions of a Noir genre, but sin city is a hybrid therefore it also contains elements of horror and comic book styles such as weird killing creatures, non human creatures, or superhero styled heros, referring to people as superman, the way it is edited like a comic book. Because it is a hybrid genre this also makes the film post modern, being a hybrid makes the text appeals to three genre audiences instead of just one, it targets Noir, horror and comic book audiences.

One scene where it shows a lot of Noir conventions is where