HUM3321 Test Two Latinos in America By Chon A Noriega Latino Identity It s a cultural identity o It s not an ethnic group o It s not a race Mastizaje The process of racial mixing What is Hispanic Cinema Sleeping Giant Myth We shouldn t be colorblind race is important All Hispanic will vote the same way because they think the same way Sleeping Giant is a myth not all Hispanics think the same way Whose America by Aimee Carrillo Rowe White victimization as a tool for rationalizing for state violence Borders are necessary for establishment of control and power What does citizenship mean Taking our jobs is a myth Media portrays Hispanics to be viewed as the other Main Points Rowe Borders It s man made but its arbitrary to maintain hegemonic status quo to exert control over non citizens You definitely want to be a citizen We do it a lot to treat citizens will and immigrants with very little rights Film School Generation by John Belton New wave The Auteur Theory Post Modern Case Study 1960 s is when more and more people started to enter the film industry The new generation of the film industry was to make money The goal of this was to make movies cheaply Low budget films that would create big budget profits ie Jaws Martin Scorsese introduced post modernism He created an anti hero EX Taxi Driver There s an alienation that comes from the main character or hero Return to Innocence Main Points Started with Lucas and Spielberg creating movies about good vs Evil Lucas Spielberg create a world of good and evil while Scorsese deals more in the gray area Precarious Dystopias Hunger Games and Never Let me Go By Mark Fisher Hunger Games is an RSA and Never Let me Go is an ISA There s a fear there s not enough money and the resources are not evenly spread The rich are trying to put impoverished people in competition with each other Films are not primarily a critique of capitalism Instead they more closely resemble caste systems or colonization s o Class stratification is portrayed geographically in these films o Caste systems are actually geographically o These two points are important to know just think how class systems are not geographically formed caste systems are However the movies portray class systems geographically Influences that shaped Hunger Games Reality television and the Iraq war RSA s are prevalent in the Hunger Games In Time If everyone rose up we could fight back We are pessimistic about the future The Destructive Power of Money Reality for Marx Effects of Money Stars are made Work is really important but if it wasn t made by an individual I forces alienation Externalization you don t see the factory worker that made the product Money divides us it becomes God Our work should define who we are The Star system John Belton Stars become objectified The star system plays a crucial economic role in the history of the film industry Starts only have somewhat of a say They don t have full control of their commodities The actual person The personality that they cultivate for on screen or off screen preformances Personalities cultivated off screen is their main personality Gender as a Social Structure by Barbara T Risman Gender is a social Structure You re not born a man you become a man Constructive Social Pressures You have to work your whole life to achieve gender Stars are made of History of the star system Main Points Career Contributions Gender as a social Structure Is gender in you or constructed Constructed Gender is an achieved status it is constructed through psychological cultural and social means 1 2 3 Individual Identity you have to feel like it s a part of you no one told you your gender Interactional Cultural Expectation Status expectation cultural bias I need to act like I m supposed to achieve cultural expectations Institutional Domain Ideology legal regulation its more explicit Doing Gender Action may turn against structure but never escape it People naturally act on social structure Men have to get married and have kids Advantages to Gender Structure Theory Gender structurally is as important as economics and polity country city province etc We need to study it in conjunction Feminism The Family and the new Mediated Maternalism By Angela McRobbie Feminism was born out of why do women have to get married and have kids It s a movement to get women into the workforce Feminism Key Words Neoliberalism a modern set of political and economic policies favoring free trade privatization minimal government involvement in business funding cuts to social services etc Maternalism theory and practice of femininity and its role s and involvements within the context of society and culture Social Democracy a political outlook interested in the establishment of a universal welfare state and collective bargaining schemes within the confines of a capitalist economy Popular in the early to mid 19th century Liberal Feminism Focus on white wealthy women Focus on individualism Neoliberalism Feminism Focus on individuals and how to make individual life decisions Self empowerment oriented around lifestyle choices and personal fulfillment The working Class Mother A working mother is strong but is tired holding many minimum wage jobs to keep kids fed and give them the best opportunities Disappearance of working class money Sexual Orientation in Perspective by Linda D Garnets the complexity of human sexual affectional and erotic attractions Garnet s model is multidimensional not rigid and flexible It separates behavior from desire scientific evidence for biological influences on orientation is incomplete and most of it concerns men only Only plays a minor role in sexual orientation of women Heterosexism only heterosexualism is acceptable It all comes down to gender Male homosexuality may be strongly linked to genetic biological determinance Biology may be at play but the research is incomplete Queer Feelings by Sara Ahmed Sexual Orientation Biological Antecedents Sexual prejudice Queer loss Queer Broad range studies become a positive on sexual gender spectrum on non heterosexuality Compulsory Heterosexuality It s a narrative of ideal coupling Fluidity is a fetish It s the normal but those who don t fit in are outcasts Heterosexuality mirrors to the body as ease and comfort Failure to recognize queer loss is a failure to recognize queer relationships as a significant bonds Money and capitalism are searching for new markets and making it more progressive It s an aggressive declaration of we are here
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