Representations of ethnicity in Films

The Blind Side:

Positive Representations of Ethnicity:

The film gives quite a positive representation of white people in America, because the mother of the family is the one who reaches out tot help the black boy, she is a christian woman, she is very wealthy, she has a nice house a nice car and therefore many younger females will look up to her because they would want to be like the the character that they are watching in the film. It is also shows that the woman is a very dominant character, more than some of the men in the film and so women will look up to her for being a powerful person.

Negative Representation of Ethnicity:
This films shows quite a negative representation of some black people in the film. The mother of the black boy (Michael) shown in the clip, she is seen to be living in a small dirty house, on a rough estate that is heavily populated with violent, aggressive, abusive young black boys, and she has had a lot of children, she doesn't know who most of the dads are and she hasn't seen most of them for years. The wine bottle on the side, shown in the trailer suggests that she drinks a lot and people assume that because of her background she might have taken drugs swell. This creates a negative representation of middle aged black women living in America and that they are not people to look up to