Matthew's Media Blog

What is a colony? a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country. Gilroy believes that colonial discourses continue inform contemporary attitudes to race and ethnicity in  the post colonial era. Civilization-ism  constructs racial hierarchies and sets up binary oppositions based on notions of otherness. An example is the British empire, in 1913 the British empire held way over 412 million people,23% of the worlds population. Britain post-imperial postcolonial melancholia demonstrates its failure to let go of a long gone imperial past reproduces in the present imperial impulse. A target of impulse may be an immigrant.

Compare how gender is represented in this Nivea advertisement and the Tide advertisement you have studied. In your answer you must include: • Consider the use of media language to convey meaning • Consider how the representations construct versions of reality • Consider the similarities and differences in how audiences are positioned by the representations In both adverts a strong sense of gender is presented by the editor of the adverts. Even though they are 50 years different in age, the core elements of the adverts show a gender focus element. Leibniz van Zoonen says that while adverts do portray women in a sexualised manner, often nude or with a limited amount of clothing on, the images are presented for the ‘male gaze’, while men are shown as a spectacle. In the Nivea advert the male is at the centre of the image and looks in control and showing off his stereotypical attractive male body. He is also looking and laughing at the camera, this is used to break the forth w

Today we watch a documentary about the context of straight out of Compton. The economic factors, social and political factors behind the making of the NWA group. It explains the fractions and weaknesses in NWA, also how the group came to fame and how they were the talk of the neighborhood in a struggling America. It shows the discrepancy between the white and black communities in LA, and the police abuse and violence that came because of it.

Straight Outta Compton by Matthew Doran on Scribd