Media and Collective Identity:Representation of ethnicity… post 9/11 representations of Islam..

Starter

• Post911 Blues - RizMC (male lead in Britz)– http://www.myspace.com/rizmc

Lesson focus

• Some language to discuss representation of nations, regions and ethnic / social / collective groups of people British cinema

• How does contemporary representation compare to previous time periods - in particular– Is there a change in post-911 representations?

Bhaji on the Beach1993

• Character:• Gender:• Generation:• Ethnicity:• Values/ Cultural identification:• Role in narrative (sympathetic or not?)• Effect on people?

East is East1999

• Character:• Generation:• Ethnicity:• Values/ Cultural identification:• Role in narrative (sympathetic or not?)• Effect on people?

Britz 2007

• Character:• Generation:• Gender:• Ethnicity:• Values/ Cultural identification:• Role in narrative (sympathetic or not?)

• Effect on people?

What similarities/ differences?

What’s changed?What’s the same?

Post 9-11 Representations

• Continued highlighting of problems between two cultures

• Continuation of fragmentation of Black British identity into ethnicities, eg African, (South) Asian – but especially Pakistani and Muslim

• Return to political themes from 80s/ early 90s (eg racism)

Representational Shifts post 9-11

Shift from … To…inter-generational conflict (with ‘foreign’ culture as negative, domestic as positive)…

…conflicts within 2nd generation (both cultures problematic?)

harmless/victimised minority … …dangerous/threatening minority

“integration” and breaking down cultural divides…

… increased segregation/ “ghettoisation”

Authenticity Representation

Plenary

"Emergences and Emergencies: New South Asian Film-Making from Britain"

http://www.asiapacificforum.org/downloads/audio/APF20070417_157_ReelDesisB.mp3