Hood: slang for neighborhood or black area/life. Before 1991 this concept of hood life was never before portrayed or looked into until John Singleton produced the black social drama Boyz N the Hood. This is the first film by a black director that actually goes deep inside the ghetto or inner city. Singleton carefully directs this film so that it appears to mirror the real world “having value as a kind of anthropological study of …showed first 75 words of 732 total…

…showed last 75 words of 732 total…call Juice. “ This film is about more than poverty in the inner cities, its about gang life and trust” (Dickerson 1). Boyz in the Hood was more than a look into the inner cities of America. It helped to lay the way for a certain type of film noir called New Jack cinema or black social drama. Even though today black films are venturing beyond ghetto violence, these films definitely left a mark on black America.