Mest 4 xmas Task 4

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze02.html

"the look of the camera - the way that the camera itself appears to look at the people (or animals or objects) depicted; less metaphorically, the gaze of the film-maker or photographer"

This links to my critical investigation as I can analyse different shots from the text I have studied. For example debating why a certain shot is used, it may be used to show us the point of view of the film maker, and what they want us to see. This could be used when there is a close up of the passengers jacket before he is shot, in my text "Crash".

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze07.html

Goffman (1969)... describes the sustained 'hate stare' as exhibited by bigoted white Americans to blacks.
This can be linked as it describes the way in which a white person looks at a black. It can be seen in both of my texts, Crash and American History X






http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/hrb9701.html

He describes its characteristics as "a condition, episode, person or group of persons [who] become defined as a threat to societal values and interests." [Cohen, 1987: 9]
This quote can be linked to the representation of black characters in the movie Crash. It is describing a morale panic description. As the black characters are shown to be criminals, who robbed an upper class couple, and are shown as a threat to society.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050505/REVIEWS/50502001/1023

"One thing that happens, again and again, is that peoples' assumptions prevent them from seeing the actual person standing before them."
This shows that throughout the movie, many people are stereotyped within the narrative. An example of this is the Iranian shopkeeper who is though to be Arab, however he is persian. Again this links to SHEP as he is only being stereotyped due to society at that time, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

http://www.islamfortoday.com/media.htm

Islam is often looked upon as a "extremist", "terrorist", or "fundamental" religion.

This shows the stereotypes based around islam, which links to the persian shopkeeper, as people think he is islamic and vandalise his shop.

http://www.manaa.org/asian_stereotypes.html

But Hollywood typically restricts its portrayals of Asians to a limited range of clichéd stock characters.

http://www.manaa.org/asian_stereotypes.html

Asian men are usually presented either as threatening corrupters of white women or as eunuchs lacking any romantic feelings

This links as it is the opposite in the film Crash, the asian man is shown to be in a loving relationship with his wife.