Coursework breakdown

http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-W-2625-CA-SONG.PDF

Akala murder runs the globe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Aho9vpqLo

Miss Representation link

Miss Representation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2UZZV3xU6Q

Marxism and Market Liberalism links

Gordon Gecko - Greed is good speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF_iorX_MAw

Capitalism - A love story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBMDvVNhuP8

Milton Friedman - Defending capitalism 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76frHHpoNFs

Captain Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzqSzbrtTao

Bill Gates speaking on Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1ioym5OYA

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television, The drugs if the nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI

The high price of materialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGab38pKscw

Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGab38pKscw

Feminism Theories

Female Characters In Fairy Tales;

Dworkin discusses the roles that men and women play in western fairly tales and their implications. for example, she identities that females are particular desirable when they are sleeping (some like snow white and sleeping beauty are practically comatose), She also  points out that good men are likely to fall under the influence of powerful female and harm their children. (E.g. Hansel and Gretel). Woodworking states; 'The good women must be possessed. the bad women must be killed, or punished. Both must be nullified.'

Laura Mulvey; Male Gaze

Mulvey argues that women are objectified in film. She presents the theory that Hollywood cinema (mainly referring to films of the 1940s-'60s) functions as a tool for maintaining patriarchal ideologies. (Men do the watching and women are watched, to over simplify it.)

Naomi Wolf; The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf argues that beauty is 'last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact'. Somehow women have been sold the idea that to be beautiful they have to look a certain way. Wolf argues that normative standards of beauty are patriarchal social construct, and women are controlled and limited by them. She states that this standard of beauty has taken over the work of social coercion formerly left to myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity and passivity, all of which have been used to keep women powerless.

#istandwithAhmed

http://uk.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/09/9th-grade-muslim-student-arrested-making-home-made-clock-bomb-texas

Earlier today Ahmed Mohamed, who is a 14 year old aspiring engineer, was arrested for bringing 'A Bomb' to school. 'The Bomb' was a homemade clock with a digital display, like any other teenager he was proud of his invention and took it to school to show it to his engineering teacher. When the teacher saw it he said 'don't show it to anyone else', taking the advise Ahmed kept it hidden until the alarm on it went off when he was in a different class and the teacher said 'It looks like a bomb' and confiscated it. Later that day he was removed from class by the schools principle along with a POLICE OFFICER. He was taken into interrogation with the officers along with the principle accusing him of making a bomb. The most outrageous part was when one of the officers said 'it looks like a MOVIE BOMB' - what does that even mean!? This isn’t die hard or rush hours, this is real life. Seriously a smashed up ps4 in a bag looks like a bomb.
Several hours went by and he was officially ARRESTED
ON CAMPUS where he was taken into juvenile detention but by then his parents had arrived and took him home.
He still remains suspended even though everyone knows he poses no threat.
As a teenager who's Muslim this kind of thing really gets under my skin because I fear this could happen to my younger brother or your brother or your son. The social fear of a terrorist attack has endangered our religion. If his name was Billy or Jonathan this wouldn't have escalated as far as it did.
This is truly heart breaking; we're supposed to be encouraging people like Ahmed Mohamed to strive and pursuit their dreams. School should be fostering creativity not suffocating it. We've been so indoctrinated to fear one another that we can't spot the difference between the creatives’ from the criminals and worse we act on those assumptions. Ahmed vowed to never bring another invention to school, OK fair enough, but I hope he doesn't stop creating....

 Strange Friut - Billie Holliday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Mr N*gga - Mos Def
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-akKeXxaA

Your Racist Friend - They Might Be Giants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHxEnQZi3Ow

Maddness - Embarrassment  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpN_TOP9hg8

N.W.A. - Fuk Da Police 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51t1OsPSdBc

Kanye West - New Slaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT3swdCJrrg

Michael Jackson - Black Or White
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2AitTPI5U0

Paul Mcartney & Stevie Wonder - Ebony & Ivory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmALA8miQY8

Bobby Mcferrin - Don't Worry Be Happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

A2 Thoeries

Angela Bary theory
Angela Bary identified three stereotypes of black people in the media;
 The troublemaker
 
'The Entertainer'
 
'Dependant'





The myth of western superiority - R.J.C Young

R.J.C. Young suggests that 'most of the writing which dominates what the world calls calls knowledge has been produced by people living in western countries in the last three or more centuries', and that the term 'post-colonialism' refuses to acknowledged the superiority of the western cultures.

Amile Loopes da Costa Caberal;

The writer and politician, attacked the idea of western superiority: 'The colonialists usually say that it was they who bought us in history...not so...They made us leave our history to follow the progress of their history.
 Samuel P Huntingdon:
The politician scientist focused on the process of colonisation and what he sees has the real reason for its success: 'The west won the world not by the superiority...but by its superiority in applying organized violence.
The concept of 'The Other' - Edward Said;

'A term...which refers to the act of emphasizing the perceived weaknesses of marginalizing of groups as a way of stressing the alleged strength of those in position of power'. In a post-colonialism, the concept of 'Othering' would seem to be less powerful.
Globalization or Westernization;

modern technology has drastically increased the pace of spread of cultural beliefs, artefacts and ideologies across the world. some refer to this positivily, using the term 'Globalization'. Others veiw this process more negatively and refer to it as 'Westernization'. Amy Chau says that ' 'the spread of internet and television, even improvements in education...often produce growing discontent with growing awareness..new social desires, stresses, insecurities and frustrations',

Research

BBC Survey on attitude to race in Britain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/what_you_told_us.stm

 Racism in the UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_Kingdom

Mind your language television program 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUgk3pWrnUY

Dave Chappellle on racism 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU28Pv26nNQ&feature=relate

Public Enemy's 'fight the power'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk

Bob Marley's 'War'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loFDn94oZJ0

Bob Marley's 'Trouble no more'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLR7qPgHogk

Skin bleaching in Jamaica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9T9SNi-u6M

'Cricket Test' phrase origins 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_test

Bengalis In Platforms 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZX1Shuj4zk

Vampire trailers

The Lost Boys (1987)

Plot summery

·          ‘The Lost Boys’ is based on two protagonists who are brothers, ‘Sam’ & ‘Michael’. The film focuses on the family moving to a fictional California town named ‘Santa Carla’. Here Sam befriends two brothers named ‘The frog brothers’ who claim to be self-appointed ‘vampire hunters’. At first Sam believes they are just delusional, but soon realises his older brother Michael is starting to show the signs of a vampire. As the film moves on we discover that the only way to save Michael (and the other characters) is to kill the head vampire, so Sam along with the frog brothers and Michael they set out to do so.   

1.     Which conventions of vampire fictions are followed in your chosen texts, and which are ignored, or adapted? (Is fear of garlic present, for example, or does the vampire look like a stereotypical vampire? Think of as many similarities and differences as you can.)

·          Stake to the heart.

·          The fear of the cross.

·          Flying.

·          Stereotypical vampire (white male, middle aged) & no women vampire.

·          The vampire saving the damsel in distress (in this case a female).

·          The animal detecting the vampire.

·          This film ignores other vampire conventions such as fear of garlic and holy water. 

2.     How would you describe the atmosphere and the tone of the texts, and how is this created? (Think about visuals effects, sound, the ways in which the characters interact, levels of violence, humour and sex/erotica.)

The films atmosphere, as seen from the trailer, seems quite clichéd as it follows the usually protagonists who are new to town and discovering a supernatural thing about their new hometown. All this along with both diegetic and non-diegetic create the usually vibe for a typical vampire film.

·          The protagonist being portrayed as a sex symbol before and after becoming a vampire.

·          The vampire/s growling.

·          Odd colored eyes

3.     How would you describe the audience for the texts, and how do the texts ensure that they appeal to these particular audiences?

·          The target audience for this film is teenagers. This is obvious because of the characters that are teens.

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Plot summery

Born as an 18th-century lord, Louis (Brad Pitt) is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer (Christian Slater). Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat (Tom Cruise), a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his companion. Eventually, gentle Louis resolves to leave his violent maker, but Lestat guilts him into staying by turning a young girl (Kirsten Dunst) -- whose addition to the "family" breeds even more conflict.

1.     Which conventions of vampire fictions are followed in your chosen texts, and which are ignored, or adapted? (Is fear of garlic present, for example, or does the vampire look like a stereotypical vampire? Think of as many similarities and differences as you can.)

·          Most vampires being middle aged white male.

·          The vampire living forever.

·          The vampire being a savior.

·          Vampire being portrayed as sex symbol

·          Coming out of a coffin.

·          Coffins being chained.

·          Church setting.

2.     How would you describe the atmosphere and the tone of the texts, and how is this created? (Think about visuals effects, sound, the ways in which the characters interact, levels of violence, humour and sex/erotica.)

·          Atmosphere seems very tense due to the violence shown in the trailer. 

3.     How would you describe the audience for the texts, and how do the texts ensure that they appeal to these particular audiences?

·          Target audience – older generations, both sexes.

Vampires

Plot summery:

Belgium's vampire community invites a documentary crew to film one of their families: husband, wife, and two teen children - Georges, Bertha, Sampson, and Grace. The teens have problems: Sampson wants to sleep with the community leader's wife (the only sexual taboo) and Grace wears pink and wants to be human. The family eats (they keep a young woman for snacks, and the police drop off immigrants for them), visits their community school, chats with a coffin maker, goes to parties, and looks down their nose at a childless vampire couple who live in their basement. We learn of the vampire code, forced exile in Canada, and the fate of the Sampson and Grace.

1.     Which conventions of vampire fictions are followed in your chosen texts, and which are ignored, or adapted? (Is fear of garlic present, for example, or does the vampire look like a stereotypical vampire? Think of as many similarities and differences as you can.)

·          The sleeping in the coffins

·          Vampires being sexual

·          Living forever

2      How would you describe the atmosphere and the tone of the texts, and how is this created? (Think about visuals effects, sound, the ways in which the characters interact, levels of violence, humour and sex/erotica.)

·          The trailer starts of as a typical horror atmosphere but then changes to a mockumentary as the background music changes from dramatic to almost cheerful and peaceful.

3      How would you describe the audience for the texts, and how do the texts ensure that they appeal to these particular audiences?

·          The target audience for this film would be mostly both male and female teens as the trailer has a reality TV show vibe.

Bram Stokers Dracula

Plot summery:

The vampire comes to England to seduce a visitor's fiancée and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

1.     Which conventions of vampire fictions are followed in your chosen texts, and which are ignored, or adapted? (Is fear of garlic present, for example, or does the vampire look like a stereotypical vampire? Think of as many similarities and differences as you can.)

·          Sex symbols

·          Middle aged White male

·          Super natural powers

·          sleeping in a coffin

·          living forever

2.     How would you describe the atmosphere and the tone of the texts, and how is this created? (Think about visuals effects, sound, the ways in which the characters interact, levels of violence, humour and sex/erotica.)

·          The trailer creates a very chilling vibe with different characters all being non human apart from the female lead.

3.     How would you describe the audience for the texts, and how do the texts ensure that they appeal to these particular audiences?

·          Target audience for this film is more for female than male as the vampires are portrayed as desired lover by both in real life & both in this film.

Near dark 

Plot summery:

A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is turned by a beautiful drifter.

1.     Which conventions of vampire fictions are followed in your chosen texts, and which are ignored, or adapted? (Is fear of garlic present, for example, or does the vampire look like a stereotypical vampire? Think of as many similarities and differences as you can.)

·          Sex symbols

·          Living forever

·          Invincible being 

2.     How would you describe the atmosphere and the tone of the texts, and how is this created? (Think about visuals effects, sound, the ways in which the characters interact, levels of violence, humour and sex/erotica.)

·          The  mood of the film is portrayed as violent as it opens with one of the characters being kidnapped. The dialogue is also a major factor as many charcters repeated say ‘i wanna kill’.

Only lovers left alive

A depressed musician reunites with his lover, though their romance - which has already endured several centuries - is disrupted by the arrival of uncontrollable younger sister.

1.     Which conventions of vampire fictions are followed in your chosen texts, and which are ignored, or adapted? (Is fear of garlic present, for example, or does the vampire look like a stereotypical vampire? Think of as many similarities and differences as you can.)

·          Sleeping in coffins

·          Sex symbols

·          Living forever

2.     How would you describe the atmosphere and the tone of the texts, and how is this created? (Think about visuals effects, sound, the ways in which the characters interact, levels of violence, humour and sex/erotica.)

·          the atmosphere of the film is dark and depressing. This is shown right at the start of the trailers and also throughout with both the low key lighting and sad music.

3.     How would you describe the audience for the texts, and how do the texts ensure that they appeal to these particular audiences?

·          Target audience for this film would most likely be middle aged both male and females, because the two protagonists are that age.

Byzantium

Plot summery:

Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort.

1.     Which conventions of vampire fictions are followed in your chosen texts, and which are ignored, or adapted? (Is fear of garlic present, for example, or does the vampire look like a stereotypical vampire? Think of as many similarities and differences as you can.)

·          Living forever

·          Sex symbols

·          Two white female protagonists

·          How would you describe the atmosphere and the tone of the texts, and how is this created? (Think about visuals effects, sound, the ways in which the characters interact, levels of violence, humour and sex/erotica.)

·          The atmosphere of this film is quite dark and chilling. This can be seen in the trailer and also through he narration