How are males represented in Sin City?
The male characters within Sin City are all violent and dominant. The characters within sin city all essentially convey to fit into both film noir and comic book genre, creating the perfect hybrid.
The characters can be both categorised into both film noir and comic book. Senator Roark, Cardinal Roark, Jackie Boy and the Yellow Bastard fit in to these genres through different traits in how they are represented. Through the comic book genre they are seen as the villains and arch-nemesis's to the protagonists. Through film noir they a represented at white middle age men, except the yellow bastard, who are all in positions of authority and power, however they abuse this power, as well as Yellow Bastard who has technically inherited his power, this also represents the element of corruption in 50s, with the example of Jackie Boy, who is a corrupt cop.