The conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that if you want to have a film about minorities, there need to be white actors in the lead roles. Just look at the current box office success The Help —Emma Stone, a white actress, stars in the film about the black experience during the Jim Crow era in the South. The picture, as many have noted , fits into a mold that critics label a "white savior" film, the kind of movie where white stars appear to help the black characters do something they might not otherwise do on their own. Many find it patronizing. But 20 years ago this summer, director John Singleton—who returns to theaters in September with Abduction —defied that wisdom. He proved that a movie with no white faces as major characters, about the dicey topic of black-on-black crime, could win over critics and audiences of all colors.

This paper analyses two recent ghetto action movies: Dope and Straight Outta Compton It argues that in returning to the cinematic hood in , it is necessary and logical to revisit literature surrounding Boyz N the Hood to assess if images of black women and girls have evolved in contemporary films. Directed by John Singleton, the film emerged during and reflected an important moment of the post-Reagan political and cinematic landscape. The routine racial profiling of young non-white males, the brutal beating of Rodney King by the LAPD in and the subsequent acquittal of the police officers involved furthered social unrest. Capitalising on and conveying the issues of disadvantaged neighbourhoods such as South Central LA , gangsta rap artists, most famously NWA, detailed the systemic injustices faced by young racially marginalised males with political consciousness. Craig Watkins. Although rap and film are two very distinct forms and should be treated differently, the ghetto action movie cycle opened up debates that gangsta rap had previously.

I was seven years old when I realized that I lived in the projects. I went to a school that had decaying ceilings with mould exposed on every surface. On the way home, I would pass multimillion dollar houses only to enter a building with pests and addicts circling the corridor.

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