The Helper 2011

Opening Paragraph for the Colombiana and The Help

I will be analyzing the representation of Black women’s body image and the ideologies of what is seen to be “beautiful”, using research and my investigation. To do that I will reference the films “Colombian (2011)” and “The Help (2011)” to establish, to what extent these programs convey to the typical stereotypes of black women. Black women have been typically represented in many films as being unappealing, the mommies, young highly sexual women, the evil black women and the angry women , and both of these films contain these traditional stereotypes , however at the same time they also challenge the traditional stereotypes of black women by using characters that embody stereotypes of patriarchal masculinity.