Production, Race, and Style

Affect and Representation in the Media

In the Gates reading, he talks a lot about African American representation in the media, more specifically representation in reality

NBC’s “This Is Us” follows the Pearson family: a white, middle-class family that adopts a black boy that same day

The Keywords discusses the term “Affect” as a “the felt aspects of everyday life, social change and durable structures

This week I chose clips from the hit TV show, Orange is the New Black, which is the main TV

For my blog post this week I wanted to create a post that would help me development my final project.

“In film studies and media studies alike, affect theory’s approach to the body as medium interprets bodily gestures, faces, and

For this post I decided to connect it back to my final project that I am working on. For my

For my post today, I focused on the Gate’s reading about the Real Housewives of Atlanta and also my final

For my final project, I am going to be analyzing the trope of the “Magical Negro,” or a saintly black

For this week’s post, I wanted to touch on the idea that many people for some reason feel the need