Today in class we had a graduate student present his report on the modern film. He focused on the "Top Ten" grossing films because these are the films that are most widely seen, therefore influencing the most minds.The way the presentation broke it down was by three main points...
The Brute - African Americans were overly physical looking to fight
The Buck - The characters were overly sexual
The Jester - The characters were silly or always getting hit and being put down.
He presented it by a PowerPoint first explaining what happened in the movies, then assembled a montage displaying each of the categorizations in the selected five films.
I completely agree with what he was saying and showing. There are several prevalent but subtle verging on subliminal themes that are consistently portrayed in the highest grossing films.
It was intriguing to me to see such a close comparison to my selected research topic of Italians in the media. Obviously the points are slanted towards an different goal but the inaccurate representations and how its feed to the masses hoping they will perceive it as factual is strikingly similar.
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