For the Presentation you will choose one or more TV series/episodes/scene and make arguments as to why these media are (racist, islamaphobic, sexist etc ) and make a visual critique of it in relation to one or more topics we have discussed so far in this course. PLEASE make sure all your work is spell checked and uses academic writing.
Google Slide or ppt is accepted.
-Five minute presentation.
Do NOT write all your ideas: use bullet points and present material on slides.
Make sure to include images and don’t be afraid to be creative
5 minutes
Participation Table Closes
Introduction
Research topic: What is your question and what is your topic
Why you chose it: race, gender, islamophobia, religion, Orientalism, stereotyping,
Why it’s relevant
Arguments: why is this critical today?
Back up with examples and your own voice
It’s the “WHO WHAT WHERE WHY and HOW”
Research Project discussion:
Jack Shaheen articles
discuss gender, race, ethnicity, difference, socialization, islamophobia, rich/poor, sexism, colourism, racial inequality, colonialism and imperialism and power
‘Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely’
‘In the idealized desire for national unity served up nightly on evening cable
and network newscasts, new actors—this time Arabs, Palestinians, Islamic fundamentalists—have quickly become the bodies and cultures that the logic of race marks as different and therefore potentially threatening to the national order. Television’s role in this process is absolutely central, for it is television that makes these images and representations of difference meaningful, legible, and familiar’.
—Herman Gray, Watching Race
This is the one time Wikipedia might be useful: Islamophobia in the media (not about tv thought) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia_in_the_media
And this one: It’s not just Fox News: Islamophobia on cable news is out of control https://www.vox.com/2014/10/8/6918485/the-overt-islamophobia-on-american-tv-news-is-out-of-control
And this one: The Riz Test: how Muslims are misrepresented in film and TV https://theconversation.com/the-riz-test-how-muslims-are-misrepresented-in-film-and-tv-110213
Analysis of Video Critique | Nonverbal Communication | Communication
378 film or tv series critique-final | Television Programs | Disability https://www.scribd.com/document/411015427/Analysis-of-Video-Critique
FABULOUS paper about Islamophobia in Cartoons for Adults. If you are choosing one of these and your not familiar with the series – this paper will guide you to the episode where there is Islamophobia and you can find the show yourself then and analyze Islamophobic narratives and animation series for adults: a tyranny of the visual.
https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-15292018000100119&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
And this one mentions both positive and negative representations of Arabs/Muslims/Hijabi on tv. The First Arab American Movie Star, Long Before ‘Aladdin’
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/5/22/18634743/aladdin-middle-eastern-muslim-representation-hollywood
Orientalism in Hollywood. Watch Dr. Shaheen’s documentary ‘Reel Bad Arabs’: How Hollywood Vilifies a People’. https://youtu.be/Q2EEL3uFvPc
– Shaheen, J. (2007) Hollywood Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims. Available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDWUomnidlc.
Do NOT do your presentations or projects on
Elite
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Friends
Aim for three arguments (that makes it easier in your critical essay)
Please use APA and obviously spelling and grammar matter
examples other students used
– Stereotyping and Orientalism (GoT)
– Racism/ colourism (tokenism in The Queen’s Gambit)
– How Hollywood portrays Arabs uncivilized – Homeland (Racism, Orientalism and Islamophobia)
– Prison break (race)
– Racism- Islamophobia (When they see us)
– Race/ethnicity, racial inequality/when they see us.
Last Completed Projects
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