Monday 19 September 2016

Essay intro


1.    The purpose of this essay is to explore how white British males in film are represented. Representation in media is how people, places and things are shown in the media, in this case we are examining how British Males are being represented. The three films I have chosen to explore are Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Brothers Grimsby and Legend.  All three films feature heavy stereotypes of white British males which is why I feel these films are a good selection of the films to analyse. Stereotypes are a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing however it most often than not has at least a grain of truth an example of a typical stereotype is “the woman is the carer of the child”. Although this may be true in some cases, it isn’t always true this is what we class a stereotype. The issue that is brought up with stereotyping is that people that may not necessarily be from that ethnic group or gender will see the other ethnicity group as what the media portrays them an example of this is that all black people are portrayed as criminals, this gives a bad image to black people therefore people from other ethnicity groups may be more cautions around black people, when realistically only a very small population are actually criminals.

 I will be analysing all three films, this is my primary research for the essay and will be looking at what other people have said about the representations of white British males for my secondary research.

1 comment:

  1. This is a good first draft in many ways Yousuf but there are some things to change which I have highlighted below.

    The purpose of this essay is to explore how white British males in film are represented. Representation in media (REMOVE IN MEDIA) is how people, places and things are shown in the media, in this case we are examining how British Males are being (REMOVE BEING) represented. The three films I (AVOID PERSONAL PRONOUNS- DO NOT USE 'I', 'ME' ETC.) have chosen to explore are Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Brothers Grimsby and Legend (PUT THE YEAR OF THE FILM'S RELEASE AFTER YOU MENTION THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME). All three films feature heavy stereotypes of white British males which is why I feel these films are a good selection of the films to analyse. (THIS IS PART OF THE ANSWER SO IT DOES NOT REALLY BELONG IN THE INTRODUCTION- DO NOT MAKE ARGUMENTS IN YOUR INTRODUCTION, PUT THEM IN THE MAIN BODY) Stereotypes are a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing however it most often than not has at least a grain of truth an example of a typical stereotype is “the woman is the carer of the child”. Although this may be true in some cases, it isn’t always true this is what we class a stereotype. The issue that is brought up with stereotyping is that people that may not necessarily be from that ethnic group or gender will see the other ethnicity group as what the media portrays them an example of this is that all black people are portrayed as criminals, this gives a bad image to black people therefore people from other ethnicity groups may be more cautions around black people, when realistically only a very small population are actually criminals. (AGAIN YOUSUF, I THINK THAT THIS IS PART OF YOUR ARGUMENT. THE INTRODUCTION MUST BE STERILE OF ARGUMENT, A STATEMENT OF INTENTION, EXPLANATION OF THE STUDY AND THE DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS IS ABOUT ALL IS NEEDED)

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