Sökning: "African American stereotypes"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden African American stereotypes.

1. 1. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Författare :Nimrod Numan; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. LÄS MER

3. 2. How Ramy Challenges Arab Stereotypes in American Media : A study of an Arab-American comedy drama

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

   Författare :Peregrin Frost; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Hollywood; TV; Arabs; Stereotypes; Discourse Analysis;

   Sammanfattning : The portrayal of Arabs and Muslims in American film and television has been a lopsided affair since the beginnings of Hollywood movie production. Over the course of film and TV production during the twentieth century, and later, Hollywood and TV production companies has used the Arab as a negative trope to negatively stereotype them, or to elevate the perception of American characters in contrast to the presentation of the baser character of the Arab. LÄS MER

4. 3. Svarta kroppar och vita blickar : En komparativ studie av samhällskritiken i filmerna Get Out och Play

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikation

   Författare :Theo Hafström; Maja Jonsson; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Race; Film; Social criticism; Representation; Stereotypes; Ras; Film; Samhällskritik; Representation; Stereotyper;

   Sammanfattning : There is an ongoing debate in the media about whether or not caucasian filmmakers should be telling stories about racism and the black experience. This study aims to further the discussion by examining and comparing social criticism in the two feature-length films Play and Get Out, made by caucasian filmmaker Ruben Östlund and African American filmmaker Jordan Peele respectively. LÄS MER

5. 4. Grammatical features of African American Vernacular English in the movie Sextuplets : A sociolinguistics study of the speech of the two African American characters Alan and Dawn

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Maria Helgotsson; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Sociolinguistics; AAVE; African American Vernacular English; movie transcript; Sextuplets;

   Sammanfattning : African American Vernacular English (AAVE) has been extensively explored in previous research in sociolinguistics. However, the portrayal of the sociolect in movies is still not widely researched. LÄS MER

7. 5. Shopping for an I : Consumer identities in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

   Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Alexandra Torsell Starud; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Postcolonialism; Intersectional; BLM; Consumerism;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates to role consumerism plays when young, black, underclass characters try to build their identities in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give (2017). Through implementing intersectional analysis and postcolonial theory this essay discusses how social positions are read and understood in a mass culture that heavily favours the visual. LÄS MER