Evaluate the relevance of Gilroy's ethnicity theory to a long form television drama?
Gilroy's ethnicity theory argues that the African culture has, thanks to the British Empire, composed a culture where all the African, America, Caribbean, and British are referred to as the 'Black Atlantic'. The limits of this theory being applied to a television drama surrounds itself on how it was first made and applied in relation to the British Empire. Neither America or Iceland has ever been an Empire before in their history.
Gilroy's theory can be applied to one of the long form television drama shows I have studied, Homelands. Gilroy's theory talks about the way in which possibly white people are more so in power. This could be applicable to Homelands in the way that the show is completely racist in the way it spreads unfair and unjustified propaganda surrounding many regions of the middle eastern society. As the theory suggests, generalising and grouping a quite diverse society as one strict set of Muslim people, who as the show suggest one have one goal. Homelands is caught generalising the middle eastern society many times through their first season of the show. And in recent history, Homelands ran into another controversy in regards to their set being de-faced with a response to the realism from the point of view of someone coming from the middle eastern society. Homelands is a long form television drama that was made popular from the very first season. Overall the theory that Gilroy has suggested, it defiantly fits into the main aspects of this.
In Trapped, another television drama I have studied, is much more subtle in the way that they approach race and ethnicity. The way that Trapped explores Gilroy's theory is through the lack of major black character in the first season. This could be taken up one of two ways. Either Trapped was trying clearly state white people as more of a supreme race. this could be further applied to roles that black people play in Trapped, the chef is the only black male in the show and he takes orders from the captain, a white middle aged male. Other black characters in Trapped include two girls found in the back of the camper van, two venerable children helpless and scared. However, the produces for Trapped could have been giving an accurate representation of Iceland and how there is 95% margin of white people living in Iceland today. This could be taken either way and therefore may or may not fully fit into Gilroy's ethnicity theory.
In conclusion, the way in which Gilroy's theory can be fully applied to both television dramas is a clear representation in his theory being correct and present in the media today. He states that the generalisation of black people is present ever since the British Empire.
Gilroy's ethnicity theory argues that the African culture has, thanks to the British Empire, composed a culture where all the African, America, Caribbean, and British are referred to as the 'Black Atlantic'. The limits of this theory being applied to a television drama surrounds itself on how it was first made and applied in relation to the British Empire. Neither America or Iceland has ever been an Empire before in their history.
Gilroy's theory can be applied to one of the long form television drama shows I have studied, Homelands. Gilroy's theory talks about the way in which possibly white people are more so in power. This could be applicable to Homelands in the way that the show is completely racist in the way it spreads unfair and unjustified propaganda surrounding many regions of the middle eastern society. As the theory suggests, generalising and grouping a quite diverse society as one strict set of Muslim people, who as the show suggest one have one goal. Homelands is caught generalising the middle eastern society many times through their first season of the show. And in recent history, Homelands ran into another controversy in regards to their set being de-faced with a response to the realism from the point of view of someone coming from the middle eastern society. Homelands is a long form television drama that was made popular from the very first season. Overall the theory that Gilroy has suggested, it defiantly fits into the main aspects of this.
In Trapped, another television drama I have studied, is much more subtle in the way that they approach race and ethnicity. The way that Trapped explores Gilroy's theory is through the lack of major black character in the first season. This could be taken up one of two ways. Either Trapped was trying clearly state white people as more of a supreme race. this could be further applied to roles that black people play in Trapped, the chef is the only black male in the show and he takes orders from the captain, a white middle aged male. Other black characters in Trapped include two girls found in the back of the camper van, two venerable children helpless and scared. However, the produces for Trapped could have been giving an accurate representation of Iceland and how there is 95% margin of white people living in Iceland today. This could be taken either way and therefore may or may not fully fit into Gilroy's ethnicity theory.
In conclusion, the way in which Gilroy's theory can be fully applied to both television dramas is a clear representation in his theory being correct and present in the media today. He states that the generalisation of black people is present ever since the British Empire.
3/10 good theory and contextual knowledge but a lack of references to the show keep your mark down. TARGETS:
ReplyDelete1) Use more detailed references to the show to support your arguments.
2) Debate the pros and cons of applying the theory to the extract in more detail in your conclusion.