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Black Panther research assignment

Is Black Panther stereotypical?:
The movie Black Panther can be seen as stereotypical in some aspects. While it's  film for black representation in mainstream superhero movies, it contain some stereotypes about Africa and African culture. The movie portrays the fictional African nation of Wakanda as a technologically advanced society, however it still relies on some stereotypical tropes, such as depicting Africa as a place untouched by colonialism and overly traditional.

Black Panther, a movie that oppress women?:
Black Panther has a gender problem when it comes to its portrayal of women. While  characters like Okoye and Nakia is strong and skilled female , they are somewhat overshadowed by the male characters, particularly T'Challa and Killmonger. and the fact that Okoye is seen as the "queen" for T'Challa shows the concept of traditional masculinity and traditional feminism

Black Panther, Africa in American point of view?:
Black Panther can be seen as a form of othering Africa from an American point of view. While the film focus on African culture and heritage, it is still created within the context of American filmmaking and in order to please American audience. This can lead to a simplified and exotic portrayal of Africa, reinforcing the image of an "other" or foreign place with its own set of exotic traditions and customs.

Black Panther, a shamming towards Africa?:
While the movie Black Panther has some false representation of Africa, presenting a fictional and utopian image that does not fully reflect the realities of Africa. However, it still gives a positive image to Africa and the black community, this movie gives effort to show the culture of Africa. and create opportunity for future movies that can better represent Africa.

Bibliography:
Bucciferro, C. (2021). Representations of gender and race in Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther: disrupting Hollywood tropes. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 38(2), 169-182.

Brown, J. A. (2013). Panthers and vixens: Black superheroines, sexuality, and stereotypes in contemporary comic books. Black comics: Politics of race and representation, 133-149.

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what happened to Katniss's father:
Katniss' father died in a mining accident, shows the Capitol's only want what the districts can provide. The Capitol's oppressive policies and disregard for the districts' well-being shows the power imbalance and lack of control the districts have over their lives.

Importance of being liked:
Being liked is crucial for Katniss and Peeta as it attracts sponsors and support. Katniss and Peeta use their charm to gain public fame and the adore from audiences this secure their resources and alliances for their survival in the hunger game

significant of Peeta and Katniss action:
Peeta and Katniss's try to suicide together at the end of the games threatens the Capitol's image of power and could inspire rebellion among the districts, and that makes President Snow worried .

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Step 1:

Questions:

1. What course theory is present in the film?

2. What themes and issues does the film discuss?

3. What are the flaws and strong points of the film?

4. How does each character in the film break stereotypes in the film?

5. What approach are we going to take in researching the film?

Step 2:

The central theme of the film would be female empowerment, and we can explore how hegemony is shown through the characters in the film. We can also look at how the portrayal of Harley Quinn and other female characters counter hegemonic ideals. We are focusing on these ideas as female empowerment typically challenges a lot of societal norms, which relates back to the concept of hegemony. On top of that, the film is made through the perspective of the female gaze, which counters the sexualization of women in the media. Some secondary ideas that we can explore are the stereotypes that are debunked in the film, and othering.

Step 3:

Firstly, each group member has to watch the film so that they understand the characters' traits and personalities, the storyline of the film, and the issues that the film tackles. Each of us also needs to demonstrate a decent understanding of course material, such as course theory and the themes addressed in the film.

Step 4:

We think that hegemony will help us a lot in the analysis in the film, as well as the concept of the female gaze. We would like to argue that the film is counter-hegemonic in its approach. This will help us as it stays true to the intention of the film and ensures that our evaluation of it is fair and accurate. However, we think that by taking this approach, it limits us as we cannot state points that may undermine our overall argument. For instance, we have to steer clear of arguing that certain scenes are stereotypical and sexist against women, as it may make it harder for us to get out true point across.

Step 5:

Task #1: Watch the film 3 times

For the first viewing, we watched the film together on 29th of June. For the rest of the viewings, we will do it individually, by next Monday.

Task #2: Research

We will do research on the film, to be completed this weekend. This will be done through looking for academic and popular sources. Nicole will research on Harley Quinn and female empowerment, and analyse the film. Ashfa will be analysing the film, keeping an eye out for scenes related to the female gaze. Anthony will organise the presentation slides and  research on hegemony. James will be working on orientalism and othering.

Task #3: Powerpoint Slides

We will be setting up a powerpoint presentation. We have already started on it since last Thursday, and plan to finish working on the slides by Monday of week 12.

Task #4: Oral Presentation

We will start working on crafting lines to say during our presentation, and writing key points out on queue cards. We have already started doing this last Thursday, and plan to finish it by Wednesday of week 12.

Task #5: Practising Our Presentation

We will do this starting next week, practising small parts of our presentation as we work on it. We will meet twice a week, spending time working on our presentation skills and giving each other feedback.

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1. Yes I have and I think the reason why is because fan fiction or fan activism is the stretching of the story, people want to read more of the story, so they create their own version of the story and at the meantime add their own thought and make the story more ''accurate'' to themselves.

2. Since hegemony is controlled by the higher power of people. participatory culture kind of let every ordinary people regain the power of who and how story are told.

3. Technological convergence allow every modern day people to express their own interpretation of the story and that create the other side of a single story making the power of create not only limit by the creator.

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short film:
The film discusses the idea that being human is a social construct. In this film, all characters are robots, who become more human as they adopt more human-like qualities. There are four characters in the film: the main character who is a male robot and has already started his journey towards becoming human, his female love interest, a second male robot which acts as the main character’s companion, and a second female robot who accompanies the second male robot. All of these characters are robotic and mechanical, but their movements become more fluid as they go through very human experiences like falling in love and grieving the loss of a loved one. The film makes it clear that all the characters are robots through incorporating digital elements in their designs. For example, the robots have glowing eyes and digital displays at the back of their necks which showcase their progress towards becoming human. These digital elements start to fade as they adopt more human-like traits. This mimics how us humans also learn and adapt to society, being taught how to behave like a typical human by our elders in our childhood. Thus, we can argue that we are also not born human, but instead, being human is learnt.

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This image is called giga chad. It's a men that have their traditional male characteristic emphasised, like the masculine body and enlarge jaw line, that is a emphasis stereotype telling what men should be and what women should be attracted to. people use this meme to prise people when they did something very traditional masculine, I think this support the hegemonic idea of men should be strong .

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Question number 2:
Two couple laying on the ice that have a huge crack might suggest that they have a crack in their relationship, Also I notice they are tilt in the frame and this create an imbalance they might symbolise how their relation ship is going

Question number 5:
The stair in the sky and the posture of the character can be a intertextuality of Bible symbolising heaven and Jesus. and the facial expression says that he feels free so the director might be trying to say this man is so free it's like he is in heaven.

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general:
1. The Africa in the story "the veldt" is pictured as a scary place that are filled with bloodlust animals and will attack people, but that's is only a stereotype that people have with Africa, some place in the real Africa also have well developed cities and is a beautiful place. The stereotype solidify the scary image of Africa to people and that is "The danger of the single story"

conflict:
1. It's called"The Happylife Home". it suggest that George originally want this house to make their life happy and the fact that this house is fill with technology goods for example, the nursery room that will look after their children automatically so George and Lydia don't have to bother taking care of them and avoid all the negatives that comes with it such as spending time teaching them homework.

2. In page 13 George says "I thought we brought the house, so we wouldn't have to do anything?"  this mindset of giving the power of teaching their own children in conflict with the responsibility of give caring and guidance to their own child's a parent.

3. because they feel like they can't compete with the nursery room and fail as a parent. because the house has took all the work that they should be doing they start to feel like the house is becoming their children's parent more than their own self.

4. because they already see the nursery room as their own parent, since their true parent have never give any attention to them, shutting down the room is equivalent to killing their parent

5.because sitting down the room is equal to killing their parent and this is caused by the inattention of their parent thinking of they give every thing their children physically need then it fine but they forgot that children also need emotional needs

6.The conflict of this story is that parent often think if they buy everything their child physically need its fine, but it's not. Money can only bring you so much. but the care and the emotional support is what makes parents true parents.

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1. Hegemony is something that is so common, it's hard to realise it's there, these Hegemonic ideals are often build in in our common sense when we grew up and learn from the outside world like media, parent and schools. However these place are actually "control" by people who have higher power, so they could feed what they want us to believe.

2. since Hegemony are often hard to realise, it is easy for people to fail into only one side of the story and fail to see one story in different perspectives. This can be a very common strategy for higher power like government to control what people see

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Post no. 3 Group Analysis Assignment(Group 3)

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Post no. 3 Group Analysis Assignment(Group 3)

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Music genre:
Punk music

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1.the world "nkali" is the world that i'm unfamiliar with and I didn't understand it

2. she read that ''foreigners'' are all white with blue eyes, they play snow, eat apple and drink ginger beer

3. that Fide family is poor and have nothing but turnout they're also hardworking, this leave out that she only learn one side of the story.

4.That African cannot speak English and cannot use a stove that is since they were only expose to informations about Africa like that never the bright side of it.

5. she thought Mexican always trying to cross the border of U.S for a better life, so she expect that life of Mexico is terrible, but she found out that's not true once she visit there. this leave out that she also have stereotype towards others

6.it means''to be greater than other'' so the first three questions kind of resonate because the speaker always thought that'' she is greater than Fide'' or ''foreign countries is greater than her own country''

7.She said that with every story starting with ''secondly '' people can see the different perspective of one single story like one of the example she gave is ''Fide's family is poor, but hardworking".