Black-and-white films

it comes to films. The film industry has been around since the late nineteenth century. It has made way for people to express their thoughts and or ideas through some form of media and it is able to reach many people. Since the beginning of time, the film industry has not represented everyone fairly. From “blackface” all the way to not casting the right people for the roles they are supposed to play. Minorities are not represented in the film industry like white people are. The film industry…

criminalization of the blacks. The 13th is a historical analysis that links slavery to current prison industrial complex. The film demonstrates how the Whites exploited the loophole in the amendment after the Civil War to arrest African-American for minor crimes to ensure that the economic system of free labor is retained in the South. Moreover, this…

Americans In Films Films and television shows have been portraying African-Americans in unfavorable comparisons compared to their Caucasian counterparts. These depictions reinforce stereotypes associated with the African-Americans. Studies show that these television portrayals influence the attitude of people towards one another. The first stereotype is thuggery. Most of the black male actors are characterized as con-artists, drug dealers, pimps, and other forms of criminals in films and…

between the black and white community. A white officer was shown disrespecting both a black nurse, and black woman that he had performed a traffic stop on. In “Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life,” by David Treuer, there was also evidence of ethnic relations. One thing that stood out was the cultural pluralism. Both the film Crash, and story “Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life” portrayed strong models of ethnic relations. Throughout the entirety of the…

Hidden Figures is a historical film that centers around an overlooked trio of African American women—Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan—who served as mathematicians and engineers for NASA in the 1960s. Without this trio, NASA would not have been able to successfully launch John Glenn to orbit Earth. Both at work and in their personal lives, this trio had to endure segregation and discrimination; nevertheless, they still managed to become major contributors to some achievements…

Yet humorous and amusing, Comedy film Get Hard demonstrates the reflection of social attitudes seen in today’s society, through the characters James king and Darnell Lewis the film reflects the racial misconceptions individuals form and articulate toward a certain race. The film takes the audience on the adventure of James king and Darnell Lewis’ desire to make James “get hard” before serving time in prison. The characters reflect society’s misconceptions about certain individuals, reflecting…

Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller-horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film received five Academy Award nominations and Natalie Portman won the Best Actress award for the film, as well as many other Best Actress awards in several guilds and festivals. In addition, Darren Aronofsky was nominated for Best Director and the film itself received a nomination for Best Picture. Thirty-one awards is the number that this film received. Natalie Portman won Best Actress for…

In this generation, media is plays a big part of our life, we’re all one click away from displaying our life away to public. In Education at the Movies, we learned while examining how and what messages films from Hollywood coveys from ideology of meritocracy and expressive individualism to racism inequality and urban high school failure. More important, as students we all gained knowledge on how media can influence and reflect our culture. Therefore, we must learn and apply these methods to our…

Memento is a psychological thriller directed by Christopher Nolan where we see the film through the perspective of the main character Leonard Shelby. Leonard has short term memory and only remembers certain glimpses of his past. The way this film is shot is through Leonard’s point of view where you see how his short term memory effects him with grasping things together and most of the time we’re just confused as he is. The film is shot backwards and is like a puzzle where we have to scenes…

slavery during the 19th century was only the beginning of another major battle for Black Americans. Although the captivity of the black body took place over a century ago, it has shaped the way Black people, Black women in particular, are treated in American society. White supremacist and racist ideology that began during slavery have evolved from explicit racial cues such as the lynching and beating of the black body to more implicit ones that have made their way into mainstream media, one of…