what makes a heroic or villainous character?
88B: Essay 2 Prejudice, Stereotypes and Racism (Two Options; Choose One) 4 Page essay double space.
With Introduction and 4 Body paragraph and a conclusion.
- what makes a heroic or villainous character? which actions and qualities are celebrated or condemned.?
- Using Jessica Hagedorn’s “Asian Women in Film” as a model and for supporting evidence, identify and analyze a stereotype or prejudicial depiction of a character in a film. Describe its negative impact or potential. Engage in, or speculate about, some potentially empowering reversal in which you reinterpret the negative detail as positive.
- Using Mitu Sengupta’s “Race Relations Light Years From Earth” as a model and for supporting evidence, indict a film as racist, or defend it against such a charge.
For each of these options, you may use ideas from any of the previous readings to support your argument about what makes a heroic or villainous character, or which actions and qualities are celebrated or condemned.
Previous reading :https://sites.google.com/
“Forrest Gump :A subversive movies” “Race relations light years from earth”
Previous reading :https://sites.google.com/
“Forrest Gump :A subversive movies” “Race relations light years from earth”
The essay prompt are
- Using Jessica Hagedorn’s “Asian Women in Film” as a model and for supporting evidence, identify and analyze a stereotype or prejudicial depiction of a character in a film. Describe its negative impact or potential. Engage in, or speculate about, some potentially empowering reversal in which you reinterpret the negative detail as positive.
What makes a heroic or villainous character?
Introduction
In any given film, there are different messages, lessons, and communications that are made to the members of the audience. On many occasions, some of the major characters who are chosen to relay these messages may depict certain traits that help to reaffirm the message that they are putting across to the audience. In films, a character is either heroic or villainous.