These films targeted audiences of urban black people and primarily starred black characters. One popular type of blaxploitation films was the action film. These usually took place in the ghetto in an atmosphere of hit men, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes. They included ethnic slurs pertaining to whites and blacks. The 70’s were also a time when women entered film genres that had always been thought of as exclusively male.
This movement, just like other major events in history, created an interest of African-Americans in film. There are many different stereotypes about African-Americans. Ranging from drug dealers, gangsters, criminals, insubordinates, and being less educated than a white American. Depictions in film are persuasive ways of making an audience believe in an idea such as stereotypes. What people see and hear about something can change their whole aspect on an idea.
Pulp Fiction is an Oscar winning movie produced in 1994 starring one of today’s biggest movie stars. The movie was directed by the famous Quentin Tarantino known from other movies such as “Sin City”, the “Kill Bill” movies and “Jackie Brown”. The movie lasts for a good 2 hours and 30 minutes which is filled with top class entertainment. Bruce Willis (52) is a famous action hero known from Die Hard (1-4), Lethal Weapon and a series of other major action movies. John Travolta (53) who got his breakthrough with Saturday Night Fever and Grease delivers great acting in this movie as a mob hitman.
The film Schindler’s List is one of the most powerful and painful movies of all time. It’s hard to quantify the huge success of the movie from its seven Oscars, to a box office blowout, and the SHOAH foundation. Fans and critics received the film very well; it has a 97% on rottentomatoes.com and the American Film Institute rates Schindler’s List as the eighth best American film of all time. Spielberg says, “It’s the only time I’ve made a movie where something better than the movie came along because of the opportunity to tell that story.” Survivors of the SHOAH visual history foundation was created by Spielberg to keep visual records of holocaust survivor’s testimonies. The foundation has almost 52,000 survivor testimonies, done in sixty-five languages in thirty-eight counties around the world.
For much of the 1990’s, I was the sole owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers have long been renowned for being one of the most famous franchises in all of baseball, if not all of sports. Originally from Brooklyn, they employed Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier, as well as countless other all stars and hall of fame players. Also, with Los Angeles playing in the biggest city in the most populated state in the country, the baseball team I owned had a larger viewing audience on a daily basis that any other team in American sports. The biggest reason that I am the most influential, however, is my endless array of media outlets.
To conclude, black people all over the world, wherever they live were for a long time victim of racism for their skin color. People treated them badly only because they had a darker skin color, forgetting that that we are all humans and the color of our skins an where we come from doesn’t indicate our personalities and beliefs. Black in America suffered a lot for reason of racism and went through the hard ships and difficulties
Perception v. Reality “The mask which the actor wears is apt to become his face” - Plato When viewing the documentary, Ethnic Notions, one might wonder in what ways the stereotypical images viewed have affected the images of Blacks. Although one could argue that the images seen were only devised to appeal to people of that time, these images seen in the documentary have had a lasting impact on the psyches of Blacks even to this day. As the documentary indicates, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Blacks were perceived by America as contested stereotypical characters such as Uncle Tom, Mammy, Sambo and Zip Coon. Mammy, portrayed as being happy and content with her present condition, was used as a strategic aspiration to other female slaves. She was shown as the caregiver for the master’s kids, loving to the master’s kids, a tyrant to her own children, unattractive and pitch-black.
He has smiled his way into people’s hearts; I have been obliged to fight my way.” Booker T. Washington made this powerful statement about one of the most controversial African Americans in history, Edgar “Bert” Williams. Bert Williams is an incredibly influential person in the history of acting. Many people may disagree with this statement. Instead of viewing Bert as influential, they might see him as controversial. Both Williams’ use of black stereotypes and participation in the “blackface” type of acting were considered negative and racist ways of portraying black people during this time period.
African American’s continued to struggle for many things that only were afforded to the white race. This led to the persecution of African Americans and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. The protagonist finally gets to deliver his speech. The speech was the catalyst throughout the story. "I spoke automatically and with such fervor that I did not realize that the men were still talking and laughing until my dry mouth filling up with blood from the cut almost strangled me” (251).
Relax, sit back and gasp as I display the rich tapestries of black ghetto. Social Factors As Reflected in classical mythology society is complicated. When blues legend 'Bare Foot D' remarked 'awooooh eeee only my dawg understands me' [1] he created a monster which society has been attempting to tame ever since. Much has been said about the influence of the media on black ghetto. Observers claim it cleary plays a significant role amongst the developing middle classes.