Identities: Post-colonial theory & blog tasks

5 films

• Kidulthood
• Adulthood
• Anuvahood
• Attack the block
• Ill Manors

5 tv programmes

• Luther
• Line of duty
• Top Boy
• Citizen Khan
• Fresh prince of Bel Air

5 online only productions 

• Brothers with no game
• The crouches
• All about the McKenzie's 
• Venus vs Mars
• The Ryan sisters 

Tight jeans starts with a couple of shots showing off a market street in a district of London. This can straight away be linked with the Alvarado's theory as one of the key themes of racial representation has been identified. The shots showing the shoes and the busy street links to the pity factor as it shows them to be in poverty and below other classes. This is also apparent when the shot of the high rise estate is shown, there are typical stereotypes surrounding people who live on estates and this includes people on low income and people that have young families, gang culture is also associated with estates. Fanon is another theorist that can be used to look at the representation of black people in tight jeans. One concept he looked at was typically black stereotypes can essentialize, this mean that they are an undifferentiated mass. This is evident with the repeated shots of the boys shoes and clothes when sitting on the wall, another shot which shoes this quite well is the first bit where we see the three males, the shot zooms in on them and we see how they all dressed similarly in jumpers and loose fitting jeans, they all also had on sporty trainers. Part of Alvarados theory about dangerous racial representations (crime,drugs) links with Fanon's Decivilized stereotype, categorising black people as gangsters/pimps, this is evident in tight jeans where the fourth friend comes out of his flat wearing a vest and the 3 hooded youths sitting on a wall. Medhurst spoke about stereotype being given off on the short hand and this is the case here because it is unknown who these people are and maybe totally unaffiliated with crime, however with the costumes and settings it gives off powerful and reinforced stereotypes that the media like to give off about young people.