The Bronx

====Mid-20th century====
Mid-20th century movies set in the Bronx portrayed densely settled, working-class, urban culture. ''[[From This Day Forward]]'' (1946), set in [[Highbridge, Bronx|Highbridge]], occasionally delved into Bronx life. The most notable examinations of working class Bronx life were [[Paddy Chayefsky]]'s [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning ''[[Marty (film)|Marty]]''<ref>{{cite web |last=Chronopoulos |first=Themis |title="Paddy Chayefsky's 'Marty' and Its Significance to the Social History of Arthur Avenue, The Bronx, in the 1950s." The Bronx County Historical Society Journal XLIV (Spring/Fall 2007): 50–59. |url=http://themis.slass.org/marty.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120181558/http://themis.slass.org/marty.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 20, 2013 }}</ref> and his 1956 film ''[[The Catered Affair]].'' Other films that portrayed life in the Bronx are: the 1993 [[Robert De Niro]]/[[Chazz Palminteri]] film, ''[[A Bronx Tale]]'', [[Spike Lee]]'s 1999 movie ''[[Summer of Sam]]'', which focused on an [[Italian-American]] Bronx community in the 1970s, 1994's ''[[I Like It Like That (film)|I Like It Like That]]'' which takes place in the predominantly [[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rican]] neighborhood of the South Bronx, and ''Doughboys'', the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

The Bronx's gritty urban life had worked its way into the movies even earlier, with depictions of the "[[Bronx cheer (gesture)|Bronx cheer]]", a loud flatulent-like sound of disapproval, allegedly first made by [[New York Yankees]] fans. The sound can be heard, for example, on the [[Spike Jones]] and His City Slickers recording of "Der Fuehrer's Face" (from the 1942 [[Disney]] [[animated film]] of the [[Der Fuehrer's Face|same name]]), repeatedly lambasting [[Adolf Hitler]] with: "We'll Heil! (Bronx cheer) Heil! (Bronx cheer) Right in Der Fuehrer's Face!"<ref>{{cite web |first=David |last=Hinkley |title=Scorn and disdain: Spike Jones giffs Hitler der old birdaphone, 1942 |work=[[New York Daily News]] |date=March 3, 2004 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2004/03/03/2004-03-03_scorn_and_disdain_spike_jone.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408091714/https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2004/03/03/2004-03-03_scorn_and_disdain_spike_jone.html |archive-date=April 8, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633240/m1/|title=Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #5|first=John|last=Gilliland|date=April 14, 1972|website=UNT Digital Library}}</ref>