 Hood film

Hood film is a film genre originating in the United States, which features aspects of urban African Americans or Hispanic-American culture such as hip hop music, street gangs, honor killings, racial discrimination, organized crime, gangster, gang affiliation scenes, gangsta rap, broken families, drug use and trafficking, illegal immigration into the United States and the problems of young people coming of age or struggling amid the relative poverty and violent gang activity within such neighborhoods.Critic Murray Forman notes that the "spatial logic" of hip-hop culture, with heavy emphasis on place-based identity, locates "black youth urban experience within an environment of continual proximate danger", and this quality defines the hood film.