VCC304H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rock Music, Masculinity, Metanarrative

• School: UTM
• Department: Visual Culture and Communication
• Course: VCC304H5
• Professor: Cheryl Thompson

Document Summary

Hollywood films and the binaries of racial class. Music encodes the scene - helps you read the characters in the scene. Main character also has money problem, but somehow it"s okay for him (his class) Sexism -> her child was kidnapped, yet she wasn"t too aggressive. Money is the main point of these films. Trope - white heterosexual male feeling frustration and takes matters in his own hands. Class plays a big role: class warfare--> there is an insurrection from the lower classes. Anger is not justified when it"s from a lower class. We never learn about the asian guy"s past. We don"t know how he landed in fargo (white- ness) Worst stereotypes of indians and asian men. Inferential ethnic/racial presences: the characters from different ethnicities and races just appear with no complete story, they naturalize a presence without a voice. White actor vs black actors: white actors can be characters, black actors are characterizations (of real-life people) or tropes.