Monday, 7 January 2008

TASK 13: DETAILED ESSAY PLAN

"Are most black youngsters always represented as gangsters as in 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 20th january 2006(USA)"

Introduction:

i am going to focus on and explain further whether black youngsters are always represented as gangsters (relate to another text, particular reference to Bullet Boy) in order to support my hypothesis, and also see if they are always associated with crimes and drugs, i will also explain how these issues are related to the society, and also mention some reasons that is making those black youngsters become gangsters.
i will also be explaining in each paragraph the media language points and how the genres are used.

Paragraph1:

50 Cent "get rich or die tryin'" is a gangster/action/crime movie, so i will explain the gangster genre and how it is is used in the movie and how it developed/ changed throughout the years (refer to other historical texts), i will be using the book called An introduction to studying popular culture- Dominic Strinati, because it has a lot of information about the gangster genre and other historical texts. (talk about some shots that uses this convention)

paragraph 2: gangsters
using the SHEP concept, and mainly focusing on the social and economic concepts, and explain what are the problems, in this movie the main problems that are causing all of this gangster thing to happen is the money, poverty, racism etc... in order to support my view i will use the research that i found on gangsters in general and i will explain what are the reasons that is making these people to turn into gangsters, and i will also use the other research that i found which is about the establishment of gangster organizations and also try to see why is it that mainly black males which turn into gangsters.
in this paragraph i will be looking at 50Cent and how and why he started rap music, he started rap music at a young age, firstly by just practicing by himself for many years before releasing his first album many years later, the reason that might have caused him to start rap music is poverty or racism because of him being black and in order to have his voice being heard in the society, but mainly to escape poverty.
this reason may be the case of the other rappers such as 2pac , Lloyds bank as well which have faced poverty and racism, and also the other point that i will consider is the association of black people and gangsters with rap music, and i will also consider that most of this rappers have been punished in a way, for eg: facing prison as most of the rap black singers did and also being shot such as 50Cent being shot 9times and 2pac being murdered, so i might relate this issue to jealousy and enemy, because 50 cent was shot by one of his friends because earlier in the movie 50cent screamed at him and it can be also as being jealous, because after the robbing of the bank 50 Cent got all the money. in her i will use the binary opposition and the propp theories.
this link that i found which is about black rappers and gangsterism:
paragraph 4: black males in movies
in here, i will explain whether most black males are represented as gangsters and also show movies from people from other background being represented as gangsters, i will also see the type of issues that black males are associated with in movies.
in order to support my hypothesis i will use other texts such as bullet boy and the god father.
paragraph 5: the movie and the audience
as one of the genres that this movies includes is the biopic genre, it will have a different effect on the audiences, because 50Cent in this movie is showing his real life and what had happened to him in the past, and how he was able to become a rap singer and what difficulties he had in his life.
the audience and mainly his fans, will be so interested to see ow his life was and what made him become a famous rap singer.
in order to support how the audiences have reacted about the movie, i will be using some reviews that i found which is on my blog and i will also be using the other research that i found about the movie.
paragraph 6: ideology and the gangster film
for this i will be using the book an "introduction to studying popular culture" where i found some really useful information, Warshow (1964:84): the gangster is a product of the city and the gangster film is a the product of the imaginary city created by cinema "the real city produces only criminals but the imaginary city produces gangsters" which means that the gangster speaks out for the American people and rejects the qualities and the demand of modern life.
"the gangster is what we want to be and what we are afraid we may become." and this is expressed through the character of the gangster. i will use those quotes in the movie in order to explain the gangster personality in movies.
i will also talk about the different types of categories of the gangster genre and relate it to my movie.
Conclusion:
i will write what i came up through all my research and my essay and if black males are always represented as gangsters in movie and mention the other texts.
other texts:
bullet boy-2005
the god father-1987
Scarface-1932
shaft
Books that i am hoping to use:
Strinati, Dominic (2000) : An introduction to studying Popular culture
BLANDFORD, GRANT, HILLIER (Eds) Film Studies Dictionary
COOK AND BERNINK: Cinema Book
Sarita Malik (2002): representing black Britain, black and Asian images on Television
Pines Jim (1975): Blacks in film: a survey of racial themes and images in American film
representing men, madness and masculinity in the media
Robert Ferguson (1998): representing race




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