The 1981 film Fort Apache, The Bronx is another film that used the Bronx's gritty image for its storyline.

Because of its geography, Marble Hill is often associated with the Bronx ; for instance, it is part of two of the Bronx's Community Board Districts.

It has a continued rivalry with the Bronx's Fordham Preparatory School.

* The Bronx's largest development is Edenwald Houses in Edenwald with 2, 036 apartments.

The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, " From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale ".

Starting in the 1990s, when the Bronx's population began to grow for the first time in twenty years, a wave of affordable housing construction came to the area.

One of The Bronx's largest shopping areas ( eclipsed only by Fordham Road ).

The Bridge Wars originally involved The South Bronx's Boogie Down Productions, led by KRS-One, and Marley Marl's Juice Crew, hailing from Queensbridge.

In 2002, Russell joined the board of the Bronx's Ghetto Film School in New York.

The Bronx's P. L. A. Y. E. R. S.

The Bronx's P. L. A. Y. E. R. S.

The Fordham neighborhood in which Calogero lives was actually filmed in Astoria, Queens ; the black neighborhood said to be on and around Webster Avenue was actually filmed at East 15th Street and Gravesend Neck Road in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn ; finally, the scene set on the Bronx's City Island was actually filmed in that location.

Arthur Avenue and Morris Park are viewed as the Bronx's primary Italian-American communities.

Several Filipino businesses have come about to serve Bronx's growing Filipino constituency.

Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake once said of Serrano's $ 150, 000 earmark to repair the roof at the city-owned Arthur Avenue Market ( a historic indoor produce and prepared food market in the Bronx's " Little Italy "), " I would argue this is one cannoli the taxpayer doesn ’ t want to take a bite of.

In 2002, he was promoted to the rank of detective, and was assigned to the Bronx's 44th Precinct.

Green clearly led among Manhattan's Democrats, Ferrer among The Bronx's and Vallone among Staten Island's.

In the 1970s, Bond saw competition as gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas began to fuse themselves with the new " action " style, leading to a string of maverick police officer films, such as those defined by Bullitt ( 1968 ), The French Connection ( 1971 ) and Dirty Harry ( 1971 ); all of which featured an intense car chase inspired by the popular stuntwork of the Bond films.

While it initially did not sell well at all ( under 500 copies ) and battled censorship after being deemed amoral, it is now considered one of the greatest American urban novels, and explores the gritty details of human nature, as well as how the process of industrialization affected the American people.

While the central concept behind Buffy was " high school as a horror movie " in small-town America, co-creators David Greenwalt and Whedon were looking to make Angel into a different " gritty, urban show.

Despite the lack of literary coverage, a style of film shot amongst the urban debris and depicting the gritty lives of those who had to rebuild the destroyed cities called the rubble film, developed in the years after the end of World War II.

Menace II Society was critically acclaimed for its gritty portrayal of urban violence and its powerful underlying messages.

The Eight are remembered as a group because of the impact of their only show, despite the fact that their work was diverse in terms of style and subject matter: only five of the artists ( Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Shinn, and Luks ) painted the gritty urban scenes that characterized the Ashcan School.

He had such an impact on the UK rap scene that The Times declared that " his is the voice of urban Britain, encompassing dub, ragga, funk and hip hop as it sweeps from crumbling street corners to ganja-filled dancehalls, setting gritty narratives against all manner of warped beats.

His break as a filmmaker came with Once Were Warriors ( 1994 ), a gritty depiction of urban Māori life that was phenomenally successful in New Zealand.

Satya and Company, in particular, were cited by British director Danny Boyle as influences on his Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), for their " slick, often mesmerizing portrayals of the Mumbai underworld ", their display of " brutality and urban violence ", and their gritty realism.

Satyas " slick, often mesmerizing " portrayal of the Mumbai underworld, which included gritty and realistic " brutality and urban violence ," directly influenced the portrayal of the Mumbai underworld in Slumdog Millionaire.

His writing is pretty dark and gritty, filled with violence and sexual content, and it usually happens in an urban setting.

These derivatives, though they do not share cyberpunk's computers-focused setting, may display other qualities drawn from or analogous to cyberpunk: a world built on one particular technology that is extrapolated to a highly sophisticated level ( this may even be a fantastical or anachronistic technology, akin to retro-futurism ), a gritty transreal urban style, or a particular approach to social themes.

Recently, some video games, such as the Max Payne third-person shooter series, have been portrayed in a film noir style, using heavy, gritty, dirty urban themes.

These include Catholic iconography, lesbian scenes, gritty urban locations filmed at night, an eclectic soundtrack combining punk rock and Bach, scenes of extreme violence and a religious theme of redemption, salvation and damnation.

While there, he studied with Guy Pene du Bois and Boardman Robinson, taking up the gritty urban subjects of the Ashcan school.

After a stint at Twentieth Century Fox during which they earned an Oscar for the screen story to the urban thriller Panic in the Streets ( 1950 ), the husband and wife team returned to Columbia as writer-producers, scoring another Academy Award nomination for their story to the gritty thriller The Sniper in 1952.

The gekiga style of drawing — emotionally dark, often starkly realistic, sometimes very violent — focuses on the day-in, day-out grim realities of life, often drawn in gritty and unpretty fashions.

Then in 1958, he was offered the part of Jimmy Porter, " an angry young man " role, in the film version of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, a gritty drama about middle-class life in the British Midlands, directed by Tony Richardson, and again with Claire Bloom as co-star.

In the following 1855 passage, for example, we can see Whitman's inclusion of the gritty details of everyday life: The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case,

However, as the full comedy potential of Cole's dodgy-dealing character emerged, as well as the successful on-screen pairing of Waterman and Cole ( which proved to be one of the series most popular elements ), the emphasis increasingly focused more on Arthur's exploits, and by a few series into the show's life, typical plots revolved more around Arthur's latest shady scam instead of some of the more " gritty " plots of Terry's minding jobs witnessed in early episodes.

The style, the layout and the colors change with each era of Jenny's life mirroring the black and white of film noir, the three colors and simple lines of the Golden Age or the dark, oppressive backgrounds and gritty characters of the 1980s.

Some consider his music to present a gritty, realistic picture of life, while others claim that it is not suitable for younger audiences and is nothing but for attention.

Describing the film as " manic, carnivalesque, and treating death as a minor ( and temporary ) inconvenience ", he enjoys Kusturica's portrayal of life on the Danube as " gritty, unforgiving and driven by a fully contemporary materialism " and furthermore commends " Kusturica's convincing portrayal of his homeland as a social and architectural ruin, where everything is either falling apart or overbuilt in misbegotten grandiosity ".

This opener was used more-or-less for three seasons ; it began with shot of a lady lighting a cigarette, then consisted of various grainy, black-and-white video footage of the gritty, yet glamorous New York City night life ( including shots of dance clubs ( One of which appeared to be in a gay bar ), a man practicing karate moves in a subway car, the outside of a triple-X movie theater, a police dog, street vendors, rainy smoky streets, etc .).

At the height of the political explosion in Northern Ireland, Harvey's " Soldier " was a gritty and moving account of the experience of a working class kid who joins the army out of lack of job prospects in his own country, and without sufficient training or preparation is thrown in the eye of the storm on the streets of Northern Ireland only to face a life and death situation which will prove fatal for him.

On the third album, I'm Just a Rock & Roll Singer, they changed direction again, this time in the straightforward rock style popularized by such groups as Grand Funk Railroad, and gritty " life on the road " themes in the lyrics.

The portrayal of the street life and high-fashion scene in the video was a reference to Madonna's life in the gritty, multiracial streets and clubs that she used to haunt while her career was beginning as well as the world of popularity and success she was experiencing at that moment.

Ferguson had previously been a producer on ITV's The Bill — a hard-hitting, gritty and successful police drama, which seemed to be challenging EastEnders in providing a realistic vision of modern life in London.

The rocks hereabouts do have blackish colourings in places of very early plant life and even primitive fishes have been found but mostly as disarticulated remains. Fish Scales, boney plates and scales are usually found in pellety gritty beds.

The documentary, written and directed by the gang members themselves, showed the raw gritty side of a surf life previously glamorized by Hollywood.

A gritty series, Running Scared deals with a teenage girl, Paula ( Julia Millbank ), whose life is put at risk when she uncovers evidence that could put a local criminal gang leader ( played by Christopher Ellison ) behind bars.