How are your chosen texts typical of there genre?

Our text Sin City is a post modern film because it is a hybrid of both comic book and Film Noir genre. A convention of film noir is the cynical protagonist (propp's Character role). This protagonist doesn't care what happens to him and is willing to endanger himself because this day could be his last. This links back to the cold war and post WW2. In the cold war, the citizens of America were expecting and waiting for nuclear bombs to drop and they were expecting that  this day could be their last. So they didn't care what would happen to them because they were expecting to die soon anyway. This can be seen  when we first meet Dwight in Shellie's apartment. He is willing to beat up Jackie and his men, even though he is out numbered and he probably wouldn't survive. He then also threatens Jackie with a cut throat razor and forces his head into a toilet bowl. This shows that he does't care about himself and is willing to endanger himself, because Jackie is a violent and dangerous character.

Another film Noir convention is the Femme Fatale. A Femme fatale is usually a attractive woman who uses her body to manipulate and gain influence over a male character. She might also be quite intelligent but she recognises that she can use her body to get what she wants. This links back to WW2, where the men were away at war and this left the woman at home to do all the jobs that the men would usually do. When the soldiers came back from war in 1945, they wanted this "power" back but the woman didn't want to give the power back. This can be seen with the character Shellie, in her apartment. This scene suggests that Dwight and Shellie have slept together as Dwight has no short on. This shows that Shellie is a Femme Fatale as she is using her body to gain influence over a male character probably for protect from Jackie.

Trench Coats are also common in film Noir and they act as a film noir convention and a comic book convention. The Trench coat was the typical "uniform" for a private detective protagonist that use to star in old fashioned film noir, but when the protagonist runs it also acts as a cape like super heroes. This is the perfect example of post modernism hybrid as they have mixed a convent to suit both genres of film.