Media Identity Race and Ethnicity Aunt Jemima Quaker Oats Co since 1893 Warner Oland as Charlie Chan 1931 1937 Son of the Sheik 1926 Introduction to Media Studies October 23 2014 Media Representations of the Social World Race and Ethnicity 1 How do the media represent and frame social groups 2 Are there discernible patterns in these representations and frames 3 How do media representations of the social world compare to what we know about the real world 4 What claims can we make about the relationship between continuity and change over time in media representations of race and ethnicity Stereotypes For the most part we do not first see and then define we define first and then see In the great blooming buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture There is economy in this For the attempt to see all things freshly and in detail rather than as types and generalities is exhausting and among busy affairs practically out of the question 1922 selections from Chap 6 of Public Opinion Stereotypes Chap 7 Stereotypes a defense They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world to which our habits our tastes our capacities our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves They may not be a complete picture of the world but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted In that world people and things have their well known places and do certain expected things We feel at home there We fit in We are members We know the way around What matters is the character of the stereotypes and the gullibility with which we employ them And these in the end depend upon those inclusive patterns which constitute our philosophy of life 1924 Thief of Bagdad 10 min link here The Arab Other 1989 the movie screen is where America has met most of its Arabs 3 87 films in 1920s with Arab themes Setting Exotic mysterious Drama Melodramatic good v evil abduction theft banditry jealousy revenge Arab Men violent sexually rampant irrational if charming then simple if good some European link 1947 Thief of Bagdad Jafar Aladdin 1992 King Tut Batman Villain TV series 1960s Magical Dreamy surreal Edward Said Orientalism The Orient has helped to define Europe or the West as its contrasting image idea personality experience Yet none of this Orient is merely imaginative The Orient is an integral part of European material civilization and culture The terrible conflicts that herd people under falsely unifying rubrics such as America the west or Islam and invent collective identities for large numbers of individuals who are actually quite diverse cannot remain as potent as they are and must be opposed Harem Pool by Jean L on G r me 1876 The Snake Charmer by Jean L on G r me 1870 The Snake Charmer focuses on a naked boy handling a python while an old man plays a fipple flute Watching intently is a group of mercenaries differentiated by the distinctive costumes of their tribes by ornaments and by weapons Such erotic and exotic imagery of Near Eastern subjects was very popular in the late nineteenth century Despite the nearly photographic realism employed by G rome the painting is a Arab World as decay death and superstition Michalek 3 1959 link to trailer 1999 short list of Mummy films The Mummy 1932 The Mummy s Hand 1940 The Mummy s Tomb 1942 The Mummy s Ghost 1944 The Mummy s Curse 1944 Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy 1955 The Mummy 1959 link to trailer 1932 1944 1955 More Bad Arabs Art Malik Pakistani Born British Citizen True Lies 1993 Guilford School of Music and Drama Royal Shakespeare Company Rudolph Valentino Son of Sheik 1926 Omar Sharif Egyptian Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia 1963 link here Doctor Zhivago 1965 Brody Homeland 2013 Re imagining the Representation of Muslims link here Katie Couric December 2010 Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show I know that sounds crazy I know that sounds crazy But The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African Americans in this country and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don t understand CBC 2007 12 over 90 episodes France Indonesia United Arab Emirates Israel Turkey Spain South Africa Finland more than 60 national markets Zarqa Nawaz Producer Falsely Unifying Rubrics Are Hard to Change Wikileaks memo from 2008 TLC 2011 docuseries 5 muslim families in Dearborn Michigan link to trailer Created by Sayed Kashua an Israeli born Palestinian journalist Arab Labor translated from the Hebrew Avoda Aravit which colloquially implies shoddy or second rate work focuses on Amjad Alian a Palestinian journalist and Israeli citizen in search of his identity Poking fun at the cultural divide Kashua and his characters play on religious cultural and political differences to daringly depict the mixed society that is Israel This show marked a milestone on Israeli television as the first program to present Palestinian characters speaking Arabic on primetime and it generated great controversy between Arab and Israeli media description from Link tv link to trailer