To what extent are your texts typical to their genre?

Sin City is classified as a "Hybrid" genre as it is a combination of the Horror and Noir genres. By creating Sin City as a hybrid it also makes he film post modern as it mixes genre conventions to create a new identity which attracts a wider audience by not restricting it to just one genre which also excludes viewers who hold an oppositional reading of them.

  The film has many genre conventions of Film Noir and is primarily based on three characters. Firstly The Hard Goodbye tells a story about a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one-time sweethearts killer. Throughout the story there is a cynical narration which is a convention of film noir. It tells us the story from the male protagonists point of view, the male thoughts are active and are possibly taken in by passive women viewers. A main convention of film noir is that it is shot in black an white usually in the day but filters are used to make it seem like night. Although the film is shot in black and white there are often times throughout the film where certain things are in color to symbolise something for example the love between Marv and Goldie in shown by the red dress she is wearing which could symbolise passion and the red bed could symbolise love.

  The male gaze theory can be applied in this scene too as Goldie's body parts are highlighted while Marv describes her portraying her as an object of desire. There is use of binary opposition also when Goldie is described as an "Angel". This also shows how the male characters are active and the female passive.

  In Sin City women have gained a lot of power, this is shown by the scenes in Old Town as it si a direct reference to how women had gained power in World War 2. The scene in Shellie's flat represents the power that femme fatales have. Shellie is very sexualised through the use of camera angles which show off her boy and this also highlights her provocative clothing and so it is not surprising that when Jackie Boy threatens her she uses her body and sexuality to distract the henchmen. Jackie Boy slaps her and so this shows her vulnerability and how violence in this genre is typically used by men to restore patriarchal domination. Dwight  is Shellie's protector and shows the way in which a femme fatale relies on a male but this may also and typically does lead to their demise.