the rise and fall and rise and fall again.. of British cinima

from the 1930's and onwards the movie business has tipped sides between British and American films many time's, in the early days Alfred Hitchcock movies were widely loved when he started his film career and helped the British film industry rise! but then later fall as Alfred Hitchcock moved to hollywood in 1939 to combine with the american film industry causing american movies to topple over British films i

History of the British film industry

Highest grossing 90's movies
Ameican movies

British films

10. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
9.The Long Day Closes (1992

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Ethnicity

what ethnic groups are stereotyped in the UK and the USA?

UK:

• Black - will rob you, violent, drugs, guns
• White - racist, stupid, homeless, chavs, 
• Asian - small, intelligent, 
• Indian -
• Polish - drunks, stupid, violent, job stealers

USA:

• Black - will rob you, violent, drugs, guns
• White - racist, stupid, fat, super feminatzi's, guns
• Asian - small, intelligent, guns and drugs
• Indian -
• Latino - bigger guns and more drugs

As Pieterse forcefully put it in 1992; “The legacy of several hundred years of western expansion and hegemony, manifested in racism and exoticism, continues to be recycled in western culture in the stereotypical images of non-western cultures.”

Theorist Sarita Malik points out the obvious in her essay ‘The Construction of Black and Asian Ethnicities in British media (1998); “The word ‘race’ in the cultural and political terrain has almost universally been aligned with Black and Asian people, as though they are the only racial groups that ‘own’ an ethnicity… Whiteness has been naturalized, as though it is an invisible ‘norm.’ When it is of course an ethnic group like any other. 

Hip-hop artists and fans seem to be embracing the negative stereotype Stuart Hall highlighted in 1981 when he argued; "There is a grammar of race based on a traditional diet for the British Media that is based on the standard image of blackness being the social problem." A reason for embracing this negative stereotype relates to the same reason why negative portrayals of youth culture sell, it makes the magazine/artists/genre appear edgy and exciting to younger working class fans. 

stereotypes

Cornwall

• Pastys
• Shit weather
• Beaches
• Doom Bar
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Devon

• Bad weather

Yorkshire

• Tea
• Puddings
• Mostly bad weather

London

• Road Men
• The Queen

• Mostly bad weather

Wales

• Sheep
• Bad Weather

Birmingham

• Bad weather

Northern

• Really bad weather
• Racist
• Guns
• Farms
• Lakes
• Drink a lot.

Manchester

• They all looove football to the extent that their life's worth depends on it.
• Bad weather

Liverpool

• They all looove football to the extent that their life's worth depends on it.
• Bad weather

Scotland

• Gingers
• Kilts
• Haggis
• Lock Ness Monster
• Bad weather

colloquial dialect task; translate the following into english or back into cornish

oggy - pasty

call me dreckly - 

proper job - a job that is done properly to a good standard

wasson? - what is going on?

me lover -

alright me handsome - 

regional identity

theorist aAndrew Higson 1998 writes "identity is generally understood to be shared identity of naturalised inhabitants of a particular political-geographic space this can be a particular nation or region"

Benidict Anderson 1983 maintains that the media play a vital role in constructing a national/regional identity as in reality the nation is too big for everyone to know each other yet often have shared values; "the unification of people in the modern worlds achieved not by military but by cultural means, in particular the media system enables pewee (of a nation or region) to feel part of a coherent, meaningful and homogenous community

Higson goes on to say; "stereotyping is a form of shorthand... a way of establishing a character... that often reducing the character to the most basic form so that the stereotype often becomes comic."

Higson: "no wonder then that a particular characterisation may be criticised for being stereotypical mean it lacks a realistic dimension, it fails to match up to the reality of identity."

shameless essay

in the five minute clip of shameless it is clear that he is the sort of dad that relies on his kids just as much as they rely on him he fits into what Richard Butsch in 1992 who says working class males in the media are presented as; "Incompetent and ineffectual, often a buffoon, well-intentioned but dumb. In almost all working-class series, the male is flawed, some more than others., they are a working class family that live on a council estate stereotyping them as well as they have a lot of children. this all links back to what Gandal's said in 2007 (he said that target audiences are drawn in by the; "Sentimental rags-to-riches story,").

social class

All the characters in this are dressed extremely posh and stood in front of a huge 19th century mansion. They have cast middle and elderly aged people in this with is a stereotype becuase 'all posh people are older'. The poster is a low angle shot of the cast as if they are looking down on you 'because they are rich and posh and live in a bigger house than you with staff and servants. No first world problems.






In this poster all the character are 'partying, causing havoc, rioting, having fun?' they are also all wearing casual colourful clothes, the cast is a mostly younger generation.










Richard Butsch (1992) who says working class males in the media are presented as; "Incompetent and ineffectual, often a buffoon, well-intentioned but dumb. In almost all working-class series, the male is flawed, some more than others.
Keith Gandal's, in 2007 he said that target audiences are drawn in by the; "Sentimental rags-to-riches story," 
classes B/C1 are represented as the; "Social norm" (Gandal, 2007)