Post Colonialism

1. Films: Kidulthood, Adulthood, Ill Manors, Bulletboy, Attack the Block

TV programmes: Goodness Gracious Me, Citizen Khan, Top Boy, Luther, 53 degrees north

Online productions: The Ryan sisters, Meet the adebanjos, Brothers with no game, Venus vs Mars, All about the Mckenzies


2.  Alvarado's and Fanon's theories do link with Destiny's short films in some ways. In the production 'Tight Jeans' there are two racial representations which apply to Alvarado's theory; humorous and exotic. The clip shows three black male youths who basically talk nonsense which is meant to be funny making comments such as 'black people are the reason for world population', they make fun of each other and question the stereotype of whether a black mans intimate area is bigger than a white mans. The exotic element is due to those youths having a background from Africa. However this clip goes against the element of black youths being dangerous, the stereotype is subverted; what is shown is completely the opposite. All three of them are sitting on a wall talking amongst themselves whilst two white men walk past, the dominant stereotype would normally be that the black youths would act violent against them but instead they keep to themselves. Fanons theory links as these youths are infantilized, they act like children which is represented by what they talk about and the way they converse with each other. They also act decivilized because of the way they are presented, sitting on a wall with nothing to do and just hanging around like thugs.

'Gone too Far' is a comedic film trailer which is about a Nigerian family. An element of pitied according to Alvarado's theory is felt as the audience feels sorry for the brother who comes to visit London from Nigeria as he is not familiar with the differences. There is definitely humour as it seems to be quite funny, an example would be the brother from Nigeria singing in a chicken shop. It is exotic because he is from a different country. The stereotype of black people being dangerous is subverted as the film is all a comedy however there was a little bit of violence shown in the trailer of  a guy threatening another whilst playing basketball. From Fanon's theory we associate the characters being infantilized because of the way the person from Nigeria acts which is quite idiotic by singing and the way he approaches the females.