Indicating your engagement with the representation of African American life in these two music videos. Both are filmed in a documentary style and use a montage narrative structure to represent the condition of African Americans in 1970's USA.
The images do not diminish nor misrepresent African Americans in that they are ghettoised as seen in the footage of Marvin Gaye's Harlem whose mean streets inspired hip hop.
Reflective and intelligent and non judgemental.
Level 3/4. Well done Rose for an unusual case study which indicates your engagement with research and also with issues re the representation of inequality.
Indicating your engagement with the representation of African American life in these two music videos. Both are filmed in a documentary style and use a montage narrative structure to represent the condition of African Americans in 1970's USA.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased you have mentioned Beyoncé's latest protest music video which indicates the lack of progress in African Americans having access to a life style enjoyed by ethnic white Americans.
Both music videos suggest that the USA has yet to climb out of its slave history and this is referenced in Beyoncé's music video against the backdrop of the suffering of African Americans post hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The images do not diminish nor misrepresent African Americans in that they are ghettoised as seen in the footage of Marvin Gaye's Harlem whose mean streets inspired hip hop.
Reflective and intelligent and non judgemental.
Level 3/4. Well done Rose for an unusual case study which indicates your engagement with research and also with issues re the representation of inequality.