To what extent are your chosen texts typical of their genre?

Sin City - Clip 4

Sin City is a postmodern text which is a typical hybrid consisting of the two genres, the Film Noir and Comic Book genres. Sin City has typical Film Noir genre and contain conventions that define it as a Film Noir text. The first convention of this text is that the character Dwight is a cynical protaganist. In the text, we see Dwight driving from Old Town getting ready to dump the car in the Tar Pits as it has dead bodies in that the girls from Old Town have just killed. Dwight is a cynical protaganist as he is paranoid about death, this occurs when dwight is driving the car and one of the dead characters in particular 'Jackie Boy' speaks to him and tells him he is not going to get away with it. This relates to the Cold War as men didn't know if the war was going to start again and they didn't know if they were going to die. The second convention is femme-fatale, this occurs in Sin City when the women from old town complain that they don't want to be controlled by men again as they like their own power, this relates to females at the time of WW2 as they had power when the men went to war and when the men came back they did not want to lose this power. The typical film noir convention of a voice over narration also occurs in the text.  The use of voice over narration gives the viewer first person perspective, the voice over describes the scene and the characters emotions and opinions. This convention is used in the text when Dwight is driving the car from Old Town to the Tar Pits and he is narrating in his head what he is going to do about the bodies. This gives us insight into what he is thinking and how he feels about the situation he is in.