RTA 310- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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Stuart hall representation: commodity fetishism racializing people through ads (eg: soap, using colonies as theatre" darkest africa, civilization vs savagery. Essentialist pov (ideology that things have set characteristics that make them what they are), stereotyping: main themes of racism based on laziness, primitivism, lack of culture (nature, sentimentalized representations: Uncle toms (eg: song of the south remus the. Happy slave : mammies (fat, loud, angry homemakers, happy natives, people reduced to racist idea of essence. Sidney poitier: black actor from the 50s, american cinema began to address race cautiously, considered palatable/safe to white mainstream, played against black stereotypes, but his parts were never a threat to the system. Power and fantasy: representation of black masculinity as a result of slavery and imperialism, robert staples established macho code of behaviour as a means of recuperating power, from that idea emerged counter-revolution and. Blaxploitation lms, in where being powerful was celebrated. Positively portraying negative stereotypes: poc centre of these lms.
