MS3 DETAILED PLAN


INTRODUCTION


Area of Study - Films ( Colombiana 2011 , The Helper 2011 , and NASA 2017)

Research focus - Representation of black Women in Films

I've chosen this texts because they both challenge and they also convey to the stereotypical conventions  of how black women are represented in the media specifically in action and sit/com films



Key Theorists ?

Laura Mulvey

 The Male Gaze  Film represents women as passive objects of male desire.  Audiences are forced to view women from the point of view of a heterosexual male even if they are indeed; heterosexual women or homosexual men.


John Berger

 “Men look, women appear”  Women are there solely for the objectification of women within all platforms of the media. 

Bell Hooks
She research about the colour codes :
 Lighter skinned women are considered more desirable and fit better into the western ideology of beauty.  Black women are objectified and sexualised in hip-hop reflecting the colonialist view of black women (sexually disposable).  Commodified blackness, a mediated view of black culture that is considered the norm.

Stuart Hall

 The media and therefore audiences often blur race and class. Often associating particular races with a particular class.  Audience reception theory; audiences read/understand a particular text according to their cultural upbringing.  Western (white dominated) cultures. Continue to misinterpret ethnic minorities in the media due to underlying racist tendencies. Ethnic minorities are often represented as ‘the other’.



Reference:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=47gTeoOwJ7EC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=bell+hooks+black+women+in+media&ots=sRfWzu2nqo&sig=MdqrgeNwzqngksAalL9m5h0PIZA#v=onepage&q=bell%20hooks%20black%20women%20in%20media&f=false
(BOOK BELL HOOKS THE OUTLAW CULTURE)

http://philpapers.org/rec/HOOYRG - Bell hooks Citation

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/the-images-of-black-women-in-media_n_4102322.html

http://www.blackenterprise.com/lifestyle/portrayals-of-black-women-in-media/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/11/black-history-black-women/23266115/

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10253860290031631 - Male gaze