Post-colonialism: Edward Said blog task

1) Summarise the three theorists we have looked at: Alvarado, Fanon and Said.

Alvarado - looks at four key themes in racial representations: exotic, dangerous, humorous and pitied.
Fanon -Black people are seen to put on the white mask, typical black stereotypes which infantilize,  primitivize, decivilize and essentialize
Said - Edward Said looks at Orientialism - the west are more superior to the exotic/dangerous east

2) Watch the opening of Yasmin (2004) again. Does it offer a positive or negative view of British Muslims? To what extent does it reinforce or challenge Edward Said's theory of Orientalism - that the west is superior to the exotic or uncivilised east?

Overall I believe it showed a positive view on British Muslims as it shows a Muslim man working hard as he works at his car at the engineers.It shows they are still very religious and committed to the religion as they go to the mosque and practice the quaran. Furthermore, in the beginning the old man washing off graffiti on a shutter which has racist words on it is shown in a positive way as the old man calmly washes it away and doesn't have a violent reaction to it.However then they show and reinforce Said theory of the west and east.As Yasmin changes her Muslim clothing before going to work to a more western clothing and her hair showing.

3)Finally, choose THREE clips for EACH of the theorists and explain how you could apply that theory to the clip. Pick a selection of clips on YouTube from TV, film, music video or advertising and embed them in your blog before writing your analysis under each clip. Note: this means you need NINE clips in total on this blogpost.

Alvardo 

Ride along 2 is a example of Alvarado theory as he say black representation in the media are them being humours and quirky.The black person plays this role in being the funny sidekick for the laughs in the media.Kevin hart is this in the movie as Ice Cube is the hard man who is always serious and has to take Kevin on a ride along.

Also Alvardo talks about how black people are pitied in the media in mostly commercials.As Africa is  majority in poverty so their are a lot of charity that look to raise for them that come on TV.

Then another thing Alvarado said in his theory was that black people are represented in being violent and dangerous people in the media.This film menace to society is a iconic black drama from the 90's in south central la where the main characters robs a innocent man for jewels.

Fanon

This scene reinforces Fanon theory of black people being stereotyped to be decivilized as debo is a criminal in the film and robs anyone who he sees.As this film is a comedy they may have exaggerated to be more funny but the idea is still their.

This movie reinforces Fanon theory in primitivize  where the stereotypes of black people are the tribal clothing being exotic & viral.As the main characters mum has on the traditional African clothing and the brother comes from africa with African accent.

This scenes also reinforces the stereotype of black people being primitivize as the character is a pimp as he has the look for it and has girl working in his store.He disrespected the women in calling them hoes and tells her to go away because he his disgusted in her look.
Said 

 the theory talks about east and the exotic and dangerous west.The two parts clashing as more people have moved to the west and so this a example of it as the main characters tries to pursue her hobby in playing football but here family are still traditional and want her to be at home with a husband.So it showed a inaccurate stereotype of them being really strict parents who forced them to do what they want.

This another example of the theory of the east and west where the dad is a strict Muslim man who want to keep the faith in the children however the children dont do the same.He forces them to marry a traditional Pakistani women however he is married to a white women.His eldest kids go out partying and disobey his rules.Then he beats them up to reinforce the rules and so this shows the theory of said being east vs west and how the two culture clash in the media.

This movie is a movie about american soldiers invading Somalia to capture their president and so it shows Somalia to be the dangerous and exotic east as the Somalian fighters had no remorse for the american soldiers.