to analyze for an essay I'm writing, and I can't think of anything good.
(I'm sorry for the boring nature of this post by the way)
It needs to in some way portray racial differences in the "contemporary West", and specifically how other races are often described as just being different to white, if that makes sense. Alternatively something that deals with how someone's nationality becomes a defining part of their identity.
Any suggestions? (A film would be preferable to a book as I don't have that much time)
Cheeeersss
White Men Can't Jump
Fuck off
I won the long jump 5 years running in secondary school
code unknown maybe?
i guess there's stuff like crash and such like as well...
Crash would be the obvious one.
Maybe Traffic, Black Hawk Down or Snakes on a Plane?
Slap Her She's French
i've never seen it but i imagine you'd have plenty of mindless xenophobia to analyse there.
I've just remembered
that I own This Is England on DVD so going to watch that again tonight and see if I can use it. If not, I will look at the suggestions you've given here, thanks all
I'd say Do the Right Thing is a good bet.
Crash et al won't get you very far - "racism is bad" and "some people are racists" are not particularly ground-breaking discussion points for an essay.
Do the Right Thing is a much more complex affair - showing that while the average person understands race as being THE important issue, it really isn't. What's much more important are the communities and identities formed around race - they're the things that really drive the plot of the film and inform the characters' understanding of race.
I guess it isn't from the white perspective but I think it paints a far more interesting picture of Western race relations than films that are just a straightforward condemnation of racism.
this sounds interesting
and I definitely want to check it out at some point. However, and I was probably not clear enough about this in my first post, the film doesn't need to be ABOUT racism/race issues as such... Just that different races/ethnic groups are portrayed in a way that opens for discussion etc.
But yeah, thanks, I'll make a note of it and be sure to watch it sometime!
Could you use Journalism in major Newspapers
take two identical stories and potray how they are put across depending upon the political standpoint of the paper, ie compare Guardian to Express, compare the use of emotive language to lead readers to a certain view?
If you really have the time you could go on to how the signifed(the meaning behind a word) is altered as a reader becomes emeresed in the bias of the paper.