The Bronze Screen

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Dominic Cordova CHMS 393-010 10/19/12 Assignment 4 The Bronze Screen Stereotypes are everywhere in American culture. From race to gender to class, there are sentiments toward people in every facet of life. In The Bronze Screen, the film gives light to some specific stereotypes of Latinos including the Latin lover, the greaser, the dumb/lazy Mexican, and the bandit/gangster. The film followed portrayals throughout the 19th and 20th century, but it still runs rampant today. In a new, popular show, “Sons of Anarchy,” stereotypes are basically the basis for the show. Since its inception, it has portrayed Mexicans as thugs or bandits and the kings of drug cartels. More recently, the show has begun to shift the entire paradigm of the characters, and introduced a Latin lover to the mix. Now in its 5th season, “Sons of Anarchy” has come full circle with the introduction of a new character played by Jimmy Smits. According to the website ScreenRant.com, “Smits will ditch his token clean-cut look to play Neron ‘Nero’ Padilla, a gang member who ends up becoming a mentor and not-so-good influence on the young newly implanted SAMCRO president Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller (Charlie Hunnam).” The show sets up the character of Nero to be a gang leader trying to follow the right path and conduct legitimate business to better his son’s life. But his legitimate business is as the owner of an escort service. Granted the entire show is based on sex, drugs, and violence, but the show did not do that well in season 2 when a Caucasian ran a porn company. In the show the main matriarch is Gemma, played by Katey Segal who is better known as Peggy Bundy. She is the mother of the current “white” biker gang’s leader and wife to both former leaders as well. The show portrays the women as both strong, family oriented women or as very loose women who are treated as objects. This made for a
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