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Your assignment is to write a 5 page (double-spaced) movie review of two movies as if they

were a two-part series. The first movie is to be from the “Golden Age” of American cinema

(produced between 1917 and 1960), and the second movie is to be from the contemporary

period.

You will write as if you were writing for a journal called Film and History, and your job is to

analyze how and why representation of a particular culturally-marked group in the United States

(a racial, ethnic, or religious group, a gendered group, a sexual minority, a particular social class,

people with disabilities, immigrants, or any other culturally-marked group) has changed over

time.

To start with, you are to identify how the group you have chosen has been represented in both

films, and how those representations have or have not changed over time. You are to use

concepts both from lectures and from Chapters 1-3 from Sturken and Cartwright’s book in

your discussion. Please focus not only on the cultural stereotypes about the group in question,

but on the entire discursive systems (Chapter 3) that allow such stereotypes to exist in the first

place. This means thinking about the political, economic, and social forces that give rise to those

images – as well as the forces that have (or have not) led to changes in how the group you are

focusing on, has been represented. Where applicable, please supplement your review by concepts

introduced and discussed in lectures as well.

Please remember that this is still a film review – so please write simply and clearly. Generally

speaking, it will be more effective if you do not try to write about too many different aspects, but

rather use one or two topics as focal points for making larger general observations and analyses.

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Chapters 1-3 concepts: http://www.tcnj.edu/~allyn/practices-lookingCH1.pd...

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Running head: FILM REVIEW

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Film Review
Institution Affiliation
Date

FILM REVIEW

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Introduction
Discrimination generally means bias and bias means the unequal treatment of individuals
based on different factors including the difference in race, their class, and other disparities. The
issue of racism has existed since time immemorial. The white race has always been considered as
being the majority while other races are grouped as minorities. The blacks, to be specific have
had to undergo different acts of discrimination and different stereotypes have risen as a result of
the fact that their skin color is black.
To date, the white race still thinks that it is superior. In countries like America,
discrimination is still evident regardless of the fact that America is the most civilized country and
it has the world's leading economy, as a matter of fact, the American dollar is the currency that is
used in most international transactions (Sitkoff, 2010). The mere fact that an individual is black
makes the person a suspect; black people go to stores and the guard at the door follows them
around because they are black.
Different stereotypes have risen on the basis of race differences. For one, all black people
are seen as thieves and the black men and boys are said to belong to a gang. Racism is evident to
date. The current president of America during his campaign was quick to cite out the variation
that exists among the whites and other races regardless of the fact that he is learned, a billionaire
and an aspiring candidate for the presidency of the world super power and no one did anything to
challenge him; no legal action was taken against him.

FILM REVIEW

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The Defiant Ones
The defiant ones is a 1958 film. The film features two men; a black man and a white man
as the main characters in the movie. The two men while being transported with other prisoners
were involved in an accident and among the prisoners, they we...


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