Notes from Articles on the blog
How did Roots and The Cosby Show challenge previous sterotypical representations of black people in TV dramas?
Roots- More realisitic views- slavery, rape, deal with racial predudence of black people started to change in 1984. Not that long ago in terms of history
Cosby- 'Focusing on the everyday adventures of an upper-middle-class black family, This family was unlike other black families previously seen on television in that it was solidly upper-middle-class--the Huxtables lived in a fashionable Flatbush brownstone' -The black man was a doctor- all of a sudden was showing an educated person living with a university degree with a profession. Living in a penthouse suite with money and had 5 children at private school. He was shown as being successful which was a really important stage of TV history.
What does the article say about the represntaion of black policman in programmes such as Miami Vice and Hawaii Five-O?
Miami Vice-
hawaii five-0- The black policeman in it his most frequent line was 'yes boss'- taking orders. shown as a position of not being in charge,
THE RIGHT ETHNIC MIX ARTICLE
Isabel, where is your Hotel Babylon ethnicity essay? I need to give you some feedback before the mock exam.
ReplyDeleteIsabel, I am dissapointed to find that you have still not completed the ethnicity homework.
ReplyDeleteThe essay has now been uploaded to my blog, not sure why it didn't work the first time.
ReplyDeleteApologies for the delay, i realise it is too late to be marked before the mock exam