Media Literacy Book Report

Entertainment industry formula for successful movie making is to provide a story with a major conflict, that comes to a climax, and eventually a resolution. Does this sound like another formula for another form of entertainment that you know? If you said yes, then you were right! This is the same formula authors used to write books. This formula is what we were taught in English class. I learned this formula in my creative writing class. Those students who did not follow this formula were more likely not to get a good grade on their paper. This is because this formula has proven the most successful and is accepted by the masses. Our textbook, Media Literacy by W. James Potter, explains that the entertainment industry uses the general entertainment story formula to hopefully produce movies that are successful and will make huge profits. We as a society are trained to look for these types of movies and books because, they are usually easily understood, and there is usually a well-established protagonist and antagonist. The book goes on to explain the different genres of …show more content…
In our textbook, Media Literacy by W. James Potter, he talks about how African American stereotypes are portrayed on movies and televisions, and how it has changed throughout the decades. My mother told me when she was growing up that most African Americans were usually portrayed as slaves, maids, criminals, or slow. She said she started seeing in change in the different roles they were playing because African Americans began to make their own movies about their own culture. A good example of this is the raise of 70’s Blaxploitation movies. These movies were made for urban black audiences and many of the main characters were portrayed as heroes or characters who were taking down the oppressive white agenda. It came way to showcase African Americans in a different