A Hood Genre

Abstract

Chapter 5 examines the way Black urban space exists in the popular imaginary. This chapter offers a brief history of Black space on screen and then provides and in-depth analysis of how Black space is depicted in the hood genre films of the 1990s, Moonlight, The Wire, and The Chi. The film analysis in this chapter focuses on how these depictions illustrate competing narratives of the streets produced by white and Black imaginaries.