Monday 2 February 2015

1) Read the excellent article exploring the different representations of black people in British film and TV from Media Magazine 42 (MM42 from our Media Magazine archive - page 51)

2) List FIVE films, FIVE TV programmes and FIVE online-only productions that are discussed in the article.
Films:
  • Bullet Boy
  • AnuvaHood
  • Shank
  • Sket
  • Ill Manors
  • Slumdog millionaire
TV:
  • 55 degrees north
  • Luther
  • Line of duty
  • The Kumars at 42
  • Goodness gracious me
  • Citizen Khan
Online Only:
  • Brother with no game
  • Venus vs Mars
  • The Ryan sisters
  • All about the McKenzies
  • Meet the adebanjos
  • The crouches
3) Watch Destiny Ekaragha's clips above (more of her work is available on her website, including the short film The Park). To what extent can we apply Alvarado's and Fanon's theories to these films? Do they reinforce or subvert typical black stereotypes in British film and TV? Refer to specific scenes and events in the clips in answering this question and aim for at least 350 words.

Black people are stereotyped in some sense to be dangerous in the film The Park, when 2 white men walked past the group of blacks on the wall they came across to be very negative and threatening commenting on the way he looks. May not be directly dangerous but has an obvious representation that theyre can be violent if they wanted to.

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