Post-colonialism

1. Films

• Slumdog Millionaire
• Adulthood
• Star Trek
• Shank
• Ill Manors

TV Programmes

• Dr Who
• The Kumars at No.42
• Goodness Gracious Me
• The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
• Citizen Khan

Only-Only Productions

• Brother's with No Game
• Venus vs Mars
• The Ryan Sisters
• Meet the Adebanjos
• All About The McKenzies

2. I believe that we can link some of Fanon's and Alvarado's theories to the short film Tight Jeans. Linking to Fanon's theory we could use the keyword, 'Essentialize'. I believe that this is a good way to describe the characters as this means that 'they all look the same' and by this, I mean by their appearance. All three characters are wearing these baggy jeans, a hoodie and trainers; This is stereotypical something that a typical young black male would wear on a normal day-to-day basis. Another keyword that could describe the film is 'decivilize', considering that they are sitting near a block of estates which in London, stereo typically shows that this is usually were the usual black male would usually hang around with their friends and would be up to no good. However, in this film, they were just waiting for a friend and just casually talking in a sensible manner, causing no trouble at all. But as an audience, we would think that's what their intentions would be. In addition, from Alvarado's theory, we can talk about the keyword 'humorous'. In the video, the three characters were making these awkward jokes about different ethnicity and were also making jokes about this white male wearing these skinny jeans. This is another stereotype to some extent, as we usually would see black males making movies that were funny to the audience.

In my opinion, I believe that these films do reinforce black stereotypes in British TV. Again, a lot of all the movies believe in the same thing and all of the characters all appear the same (essentialize). For example, they all wear the same clothes as shown in these example movies that we went through in class. On the other hand, sometimes it goes against these stereotypes as shown in the movie 'Gone too far'. This movie was about this man coming from abroad which is in particular parts of London, shows that it is very embarrassing and don't want anything to do with that particular culture.