Gender Stereotypes In Film
The common assumption that hollywood gives the upper-hand to Americans in everything lies in the truth that Americans, especially white males run the hollywood scene. The invisibility of representation in hollywood is a reflection of the lack of diversity on the big-screen, and behind the screen.This asymmetry of status gives Americans the upper hand in portraying non-Americans, their internalized superiority comes from Americans being seen as the victors in everything. This “winner” mindset is the consistent standard that Americans have to hold themselves up to, depicting Native-Americans as savages, Arabs as terrorists, and Immigrants as lazy individuals only fuels their agenda. This white-washed “patriotic” media will only represent their
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The American-based Ku Klux Klan is said to “uphold christian morality” is hardly ever correlated with christianity because we as individuals understand that a small group can never represent the majority, or at least we understand that in one perspective. The depiction of arabs on the big screen is seen almost as synonymous to the depiction of terrorists. These negative mindsets give way to paving islamophobia, which in return gives Americans the advantage because they come off as patriotic. In the recent movie “Zero and Dark Thirty”, the capture and hunt of long-time indisputable terrorist Osama Bin Laden is displayed. What is debatable is the the fact that the movie incorporated the majority of arabs with no real life actual threat to national security as terrorists as well. The composition of those Arabs as radical “islam-practicing” terrorists only feeds into the public’s opinion of them. "Movies help individuals articulate their feelings and moods that ultimately shape their behavior". Co-Authors of the book, Psychology of Violence conducted an experiment where individuals are asked to draw their depiction of the average Arab and Caucasian. As expected, the Arabs were depicted with weaponry whereas the Caucasians were not, thus showcasing the hit the media takes on the image of
The American-based Ku Klux Klan is said to “uphold christian morality” is hardly ever correlated with christianity because we as individuals understand that a small group can never represent the majority, or at least we understand that in one perspective. The depiction of arabs on the big screen is seen almost as synonymous to the depiction of terrorists. These negative mindsets give way to paving islamophobia, which in return gives Americans the advantage because they come off as patriotic. In the recent movie “Zero and Dark Thirty”, the capture and hunt of long-time indisputable terrorist Osama Bin Laden is displayed. What is debatable is the the fact that the movie incorporated the majority of arabs with no real life actual threat to national security as terrorists as well. The composition of those Arabs as radical “islam-practicing” terrorists only feeds into the public’s opinion of them. "Movies help individuals articulate their feelings and moods that ultimately shape their behavior". Co-Authors of the book, Psychology of Violence conducted an experiment where individuals are asked to draw their depiction of the average Arab and Caucasian. As expected, the Arabs were depicted with weaponry whereas the Caucasians were not, thus showcasing the hit the media takes on the image of