MEDIA MAGAZINE AND ONLINE RESEARCH
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‘black youths in urban america’
“It has also resulted in awareness among urban Black
youth that there are many who share and resist attacks on Black youth”
“black urban cultural institution may seem an overstatement,
but its role in addressing modern issues of morality, injustice…”
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contemporary historical drama representation
of "youth"
“Instead, I’d like to examine the film’s representation of race and
gender, as it’s a fascinating counterpart to the modern, whitewashed
blockbusters”
“What’s brilliant about the representation of races in Straight Outta
Compton is that it not only subverts the system by focusing almost entirely on
black characters”
“Historically what is important in terms of these
discourses around race/racism is that henceforth any Black protest is
invariably labeled negatively”
“ as "riots, disturbances, unruly mob
violence"”
“since the early 1980s protest has been called
"orgies of arson, rampaging Blacks, black tide of looters.”
“Blacks remain invisible until and unless they are
perceived as a problem”
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In
other words what is occurring is a normalizing effect through these discourses
around Black protest whereby it becomes something quite other.
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There
is a effect at the interface of political and media discourses which points to
innate Black lawlessness. Blacks are stereotyped and rendered visible only as "rioters, looters, muggers, scroungers
on the welfare state, illegal immigrants."
“Blacks on TV have very
little favourable representation.”
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Based on Therese Daniels' as yet
unpublished research into the TV archives
“synoptic view of what's
been on the small screen since the 1950s will show that there has been little
change in the representation of Blacks”
“at least until the last
fifteen years where there has been a mixture of progress and racist regression.”
“It is only now with
deregulation and the new technology of cable and satellite that there may well
be a definitive change because of audience targeting...”
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Suggesting
that media producers are forced to show positive representation to avoid
protests riots and being labelled as racist.
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More
people have access to media products (due to the development of new technology)
and in order to reach a wide range of audiences they need to be equal.
“Naturalised representations again referenced original
social realism with on location shooting in Hackney and a contemporary take on
urban life as a USP”
“a contemporary social realist film that maps the
original genre template onto more up to date representations but also reflects
an independent film that is both culturally”
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This
suggests that the aim of racial historical dramas is to show the social realism
aspect of life and some film do that affectively.
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http://media.edusites.co.uk/search/results/6ea6baa82414bed26429ce4785e71745/
(media theorist)
“Contrasting postures toward the representation of
Afro oral history are seen in two carefully positioned nonfiction films…”
“Warrington Huahn's STREET CORNER STORIES (1978)…
New
Haven corner store where black men congregate before going to work, catching
their practice of black storytelling and uninhibited rapping”
Black historical dramas
were known for the “verse of liberation
struggles past and present together with their uncensored opinions, directly
into the camera.”
“…major message films about U.S. racism are either
historical narratives (e.g. The Butler)”
“that allow viewers to believe that racism is entirely
a thing of the past, or they’re “sensitive,” “balanced” stories (Crash) that
pretend that racism is nothing more than individual bigotry…”
“Arguably does more to reproduce Hollywood’s racism
than it does to address that problem.”
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Although
historical dramas are criticised for “reproduce racism” they think showing it
in this narrative structure allows since that “story” merely reduces the issue
to a clash of individual personalities, and it directs our attention away from
the broader structural problems that help to fuel that feud in the first place.
“The street hustler and the more respectable social climber alike
represent the most petty bourgeois individualism”
“Blacks involved in organized political struggle are
denigrated as buffoons.”
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This
suggests that in order for young black people to become social climbers and
avoid being labelled as a “buffoons” they need to present themselves as “street hustlers”
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