Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Diversity In Film ( Part II )

Diversity In Film ( Part II )

         With the second half of the 20th century, accelerated the pace of global international, multicultural elements polymeric quickly evolved into major Hollywood movie production, so that the American film production is not only able to provide entertainment for their audiences the text, but also to different countries around the world and the nation's people to see their familiar cultural factors, and thus to love this film culture. 


        In order to realize the diversity of film culture, Hollywood has long been an open attitude gathered a large number of the world's film professionals, such as Ingrid Bergman from Sweden, the United Kingdom of Vivien Leigh, Australia, Mel Gibson, and China's Jackie Chan, Jet Li, John Woo, and other famous artists. These different nationalities, different historical and cultural background to bring together artists of Hollywood, has laid a solid foundation for the diversified development of American movies.

Monday, November 17, 2014

Diversity In Film

Diversity In Film
        When Halle Berry became the first African-American actress to win an Academy award for Best Actres in 2002,she was said “This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It’s for the women that stand beside me - Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, and it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.”
       

         American film tries to transcend the various regions of the world, the movie version of all nationalities, all classes and different political and cultural differences, to achieve its aim of globalization. Such as Spielberg's "Schindler's List" is a typical German awakening of conscience, and not hesitate to risk their lives to rescue Jews rebel Nazis and the true story of the creation of the master copy of the film, the film is clearly a humanitarian spirit is important ideological background. 

           In order to achieve the film's transcendence, the Americans also took heterozygous multicultural approach to film-making, in an attempt to meet the different countries and regions, different ethnic and cultural traditions people's aesthetic needs. America itself is a nation of immigrants, and the arrival of multi-ethnic blend makes this country from the beginning of the founding of a strong foreign culture of inclusiveness, it is also based on this point, it was decided the American movies cultural diversity.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Racism in Social Media

Racism in Social Media
Photo on the left of this dance wearing a blue dress, black hair, dark skin Barbie is marked in red trademark promotional price $ 3, and the right dance clothes,, blonde wearing a red white Barbie is an ordinary yellow trademark marked price of $ 5.93, the price difference of nearly doubled.
According to the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported that retail giant Wal-Mart is the world's largest users of a branch of protest in Louisiana sell Barbie dolls of different colors and different because of the price the same paragraph, accused of alleged racial discrimination.
Image display, color is black, priced at $ 3 Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls white complexion is selling $ 5.93, but these two Barbie dolls are also on display at the same horizontal position trafficking, particularly interesting. Obviously, only a different color and other aspects of exactly the difference between the price of Barbie nearly doubled, so it stores was suspected of racial discrimination and controversial. A netizen first put the price of the goods and paid as usual contrast on the humor site FunnyJunk.com, then gradually being posted, caused a lively discussion.


Monday, November 3, 2014

Films about race and ethnicity

"Films about race and ethnicity

     Racial issues in the international arena continues for a long time, and until now have not been fully resolved, as an outsider, we always stand on the critical position of white racists, for obvious reasons, they are the direct executor of discrimination against blacks in this behavior. 

     In the movie, most of the black race are more backward countries, some for many years in the war, which makes us feel that their living environment in turmoil, frequent wars, their citizens are very aggressive, easy to riot. We see the places where blacks tend to be ghetto, a variety of drug trafficking, violent events happened here, so we think they are so in the subconscious.

      "The Help" is adapted from Kathryn Stockett's novel, about a social phenomenon in the 1960s Mississippi occurred. A college girl could not understand American society Skeeter very unfair treatment of black maids, wants to write a book to help these maids out of the woods.