Fanon - Putting on a white mask
Alvarado - Black people being humorous, exotic,
Thursday 24 October 2013
Thursday 10 October 2013
Orientalism - Edward Said
Does the 10 minutes opening scene of Yasmin offer a positive of a negative representation of British Muslims?
At the start of the opening sequence, Muslims are represented to be very religious and cultural due to the hymns chanted. As they were chanted through a microphone in order to amplify the sound so that the whole town could hear it, it just shows the level of how religious the Muslims living in Britain are. Also, due to the discipline whilst the boy was reading his holy book to his father by telling him to repeat every sentence in order for him to get it right portrays Muslims to be very committed within everything they do being a positive representation. On the other hand, the girl at the start in noticed changing into non-cultural clothes such as blue jeans and a pink stripped top, it connotes to the audience that she may not be as religious and maybe not as proud of her religion and that she would have to be 'putting on a white mask' which is a theory said by Franz Fanon who believed that people have to change the way they act and the way they look due to society; as this usually only applied to black people which was his theory initially, in this case, it also refers to other culturs as the girl had to dress in western clothing in order to approach a white-British male.
At the start of the opening sequence, Muslims are represented to be very religious and cultural due to the hymns chanted. As they were chanted through a microphone in order to amplify the sound so that the whole town could hear it, it just shows the level of how religious the Muslims living in Britain are. Also, due to the discipline whilst the boy was reading his holy book to his father by telling him to repeat every sentence in order for him to get it right portrays Muslims to be very committed within everything they do being a positive representation. On the other hand, the girl at the start in noticed changing into non-cultural clothes such as blue jeans and a pink stripped top, it connotes to the audience that she may not be as religious and maybe not as proud of her religion and that she would have to be 'putting on a white mask' which is a theory said by Franz Fanon who believed that people have to change the way they act and the way they look due to society; as this usually only applied to black people which was his theory initially, in this case, it also refers to other culturs as the girl had to dress in western clothing in order to approach a white-British male.
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