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

Sin City being my chosen text is classified as a Hybrid of Film Noir & Comic book genre, making Sin City a post modern text, this means that the genres conventions are mixed to create a new appealing genre to appeal to a wider range of audiences.

Sin city is a film made in 2005 based on a graphic novel which focuses on street wars between groups of prostitutes and mercenaries, violence, romance and horror is openly expressed in this film, it contains elements of various genres allowing it to attract many audiences.

Film Noir is known as black film in french, this genre consists of dark but modern features, this was expressed in Sin City by low key lighting, the majority of the film was black/white with key subjects such as the colour red in high contrast to create denotations & connotations for the viewer, making the film more appealing and creating suspense for the audience.

In the scene which involves the first action/fight scene with Hartigan, typical conventions of Film Noir are displayed. During the fight sequence the contrast & brightness is kept low, the scene remains in black & white to change the mood of the audience and represent dark danger by having flashing lamp posts and many other conventions such as rain and thunder with lightening effects. when Hartigan is betrayed by Bob and shot continuously, No audio sound of Hartigan in pain is played, instead a non diegetic voice over is done of Hartigan in a masculine, deep voice discussing how he's been betrayed by his 'partner' Bob in his attempt to rescue the little girl. Diegetic sound is used throughout scene with rain pouring down in the dark streets, a girl crying at the death of Hartigan and gun shots; all these are typical conventions of Film noir.

the comic book genre is openly reflected in Sin city, Unrealistic/superhuman abilities on characters such as Mark represent this genre. In the scene where Mark is framed for Goldie's death, unrealistic stunts are performed by Mark to escape the scene (e.g jumping down the flight of stairs whilst getting shot), he then jumps across roof tops and finally he survives multiple bullet wounds relating Mark to a superhero, in reality this is clearly not possible therefore making this scene a typical Comic book genre text. The structure of the scenes are also related to this genre (equilibrium, new equilibrium & disequilibrium)