Sin City is recognised as a post-modern film as it is a hybrid genre, made up of various different genres including film noir, comic book and aspects of horror.
There are many typical conventions of film noir, for example in an urban environment with damp streets and stormy weather being used as pathetic fallacy. In the text Sin City, this setting is prominent throughout the film, and an example of this is the scene when the prostitutes are shooting at the cops from the roof of the building. Another convention of film noir that links to this scene is
