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Women will go to extreme lengths to be considered beautiful

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The hair industy is very expensi

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Women spend over a quarter of a million dollars annually on vanity products.

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What happens in the scene?
In this scene Chris Rock meets up with a 'Chemical Genius,' Professor Berry, who shows him what happens minutes after putting a drop of Sodium Hydroxide, the main chemical component of Hair relaxer, on a piece of chicken flesh. The Professor also shows Chris what happens to a tin can when it's left in Sodium Hydroxide for, one, two and three hours.

What comment on the hair industry is being made?
The comment being made is that black women and men are going to extreme measures to have what is considered "Good Hair".

Who is in the scene?
Chris Rock and Professor Berry are the only two people in this scene.

Does the scene use any evidence to convince the viewer of a particular idea?
The scene uses uses the cans submerged in sodium hydroxide as visual evidence to convince the viewers that the chemicals in relaxer are highly corrosive and dangerous.

How does the scene want viewers to react?
The scene is trying to induce a surprised and fearful response to the dangers of sodium hydroxide and relaxer.

Is there any bias in this scene? What is being left out?
There is a kind of bias in this scene, this being that relaxer uses a harmful chemical but, nothing is being left out. Chris Rock clearly states that some black men and women are putting this in their hair to straighten it.

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African-Americans make up 12% of the population and 80% of the hair industry.

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The hair industry is so corrupt that they make their consumers use products that are not good for their health. In this scene professor berry uses a scientific experiment to support this Idea. It shows the effects of sodium hydroxide on an alliminium can as well as explaining the effects on the human lungs. By adding in this scene to the documentary Chris Rock and the producer want the audience to be shocked that people could even think about putting these deadly chemicals in their hair.

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People in the American Hair business are willing to spend a significant amount of money to satisfy people's material possessions. Famous American women are being interviewed in this scene as well as hairdressers. This scene also included public interaction in a hair salon where Chris Rock asks customers how much they payed for their weave.

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The hair business capitilizes off of women's insecurity and this is shown through the interviews in the first scene.

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What happens in the scene?
In this scene Chris Rock interviews all of the contestants for the hair style contest.

What comment on the hair industry is being made?
That the hair industry is being taken too seriously. Also that the contestants are just worried about their act and not making good Hair.

Who is in the scene?
Chris Rock, Mamie Bell, Tanya Crumel, Kevin Kirk, Derek J, Freddie J, Jason Griggers.

How does the scene want the viewer to react?
The scene wants the viewer to be suprised at the competitiveness of the competition and how ridiculously they all act.

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Society's beauty expectations are corrupting the thoughts of children and damaging their self esteem.
One scene in particular states that even children don't think they have good hair so to be beautiful, they 'relax' their hair to fit in or to look more like the other people in the class.

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What happens in the scene?
In this scene we see how relaxes are made and what it takes to be able to use relaxes.

What comment on hair industry is being made?
That the hair industry is a very important industry to black women and to use relaxes you must be trained to be able to use them as of the deadly chemicals.

Who is in the same?
Chris rock, Mr duddley, employees

Does the scene use any evidence to convince the viewer of a particular idea?
The scene presents the idea that the black hair industry is a major part in a black society and women will go to extreme lengths to be considered.

How does the scene want the viewer to react?
The scene wants the viewer to be surprised and also worried to see how relaxes are made

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This scene talks about the cost and upkeep of hairstyles(weave)
It shows how the industry has infected the minds of everyday African American women into getting a hairstyle (weave) even though they are expensive
It uses first hand evidence from a first hand source(hair dresser) also a school teacher and mother. They buy the weave even when they know the (still need the source names hair dresser setting etc)

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This scene introduces the idea of the 'Good Hair'. It introduces famous people and their opinion on what's 'good hair'. During an interview with Nia Long she states that

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The product relaxer is introduced and states the main ingredient which is sodium hydroxide, in this scene the product is referred to as an antidote. Women's definition of 'good hair' is one that is "silky and straight"

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Scene 6 hair portrays the theme that Woman will go to extreme lengths to be considered beautiful, and that the hair industry is willing to capitalise off of woman's insecurities.

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The African-American community are allowing vanity to cloud their judgement.

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There is an expectations for different races to work towards the Asian and White European hair styles. "European and Asian hair, the texture seems to be the style all women seem to be trying to achieve"

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What happens in the scene?
In the multiple scenes that I watched, it was mainly a lot of the interviews that Chris did, he talked to various African-American Celebrities and African-American people on how much money they spend on their hair.
What comment on the hair industry is being made?
That the hair industry is utterly expensive and ridiculous. The fact that African-American women have to spend over $1000 on a weave to have the "good hair" they desire or ridiculous amounts of money to have it permed and have the risk of burning their hair off.
Who is in the scene?
Chris Rock, African-American celebrities, women and men.
Does the scene use any evidence to convince the viewer of a particular idea?

The scene uses evidence of people and hairdressers giving the price of how much their weaves are gonna cost to show that yes, the hair industry is utterly expensive for African American women.

-How does the scene want the viewer to react?

To react shocked at the statistics of how much African-American women are willing to pay to have “good hair.” They also probably want white people especially to feel glad that they don't have to pay as much as African American women for their hair and make African-American people relieved that they aren't the only ones going through the pain of spending money on a weave.

-Is there any bias in this scene? What is being left out?

There is a lot of bias in these scenes. Chris Rock mainly interviews the women yes, but when he interviews the men he automatically thinks that it's the men who pay for the women's weaves which is not exactly true. Women pay for their own weaves as well showing a lot of sexism as if saying women don't go to work and therefore the men pay for everything themselves

-What visual conventions are used in the scene?

Visual conventions that are used include Interviews, Mise-en-Scene, Narration and Montage

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No such thing as natural beauty

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Juxtaposition is used at the beginning to show the dramatic change in the hair industry.

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Santa Monica High School
In this scene the African/American teenage girls believe that having a weave or using relaxer is the only way for a black woman to get a decent job.
The hair industry is making kids believe that conforming to white standards means looking like a professional employee. The hair industry is deeming black hair to be messy and unprofessional.

This scene demonstrates that even black adolescents feel like they aren't good-looking enough without some kind of major beauty accessory. Thy don't just feel unattractive, they feel inferior and unprofessional compared to those who hold the standard of ‘good hair’.

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“Women will go to extreme lengths to be considered beautiful” such as damaging their skin so they have the “white people hair look”

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What happens in the scene?
The scene starts With a montage of hairstyles from the 1960's, and then moves on to a modern display of hairstyles In a fashion show.

What comment is being made on the hair industry?
It shows that the hair industry is always changing and specifically black African American woman are expected to keep up with it so they spend more money to fit into society's norms.

Who is in the scene?
Lots of African American woman, not many males, and not white people.

Does the scene use evidence to convince the viewer of a particular idea?
This scene influences woman to think they need to look a particular way to fit into society's norms or feel beautiful.

How does the scene want viewers to react?
They want them to feel jealous and inadequate, so they buy hair products and spend money to feel more content with life.

Is there any bias in the scene?
There is bias in this scene as they completely ignore white woman in this scene and through out further scenes in the documentary.

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In this scene there is a photo montage of Chris Rock's children Lola and Zahra. Chris then explains how his daughter Lola came up to him and said "Dad how come I don't have good hair". This shows how societies expectations of beauty is corrupting and damaging children's self esteem and thoughts. This allows the viewer to feel empathy as children are seen as pure and innocent.

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1. Chris Rock interviews women and men about how they view African American hair.

2. What's being said is that they perceive and view as good hair and how their ‘African-American’ hair styles affect how people see them and themselves.

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- Chris Rock

Salli Richardson

Melyssa Ford

Tracie Thoms

Vanessa Bell Calloway

Andre Harrell

Dr Maya Angelou

4. In the scene the interviewee talks about how they want their ‘African American’ hair to look like European hair, the theme of when it comes to what is considered beautiful white culture dominates is present.

5. The scene wants to the viewer to react shocked and sympathetics towards how people grew up thinking they didn't have a ‘good hair’. They want people to react sympathetic so that people feel bad for them, and therefore continue to watch the documentary

6. There could possible be some biased in the scene as they don't asked any kids about how they see their hair and if they like it the way it is.

7. Montage, mise-en-scene, archival footage, interviews

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In this scene they introduce the product relaxer, how it's made and what ingredients are used in it.