Horror and Heroics: the Cinema of September 11th
http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/mmagpast/MM37_Production_Cinema9_11.html
Immediately following the attacks, Hollywood took a sensitive step away from disaster spectacle. The original teaser trailer for Spiderman (2002) had featured the titular hero spinning a web between the two towers of the WTC in order to catch a helicopter full of criminals.
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Monday 12 December 2011
10 wiki quotes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britz_(TV_serial)
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britz/episode-guide/series-1
"Peter Kosminsky's drama about a British Muslim family who are pulled in radically different directions by their conflicting personal experiences in post 9/11 Britain"
"His desire to assimilate into every aspect of contemporary British culture sees him driven into the open arms of MI5 where his first assignment is to help track down a terrorist cell linked to July 7th London bombers".
"Sohail is forced to question where his loyalties really lie, with the Pakistani Muslim community or with the country of his birth, England"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3669027/Britz-blew-its-credibility-in-the-final-minute.html
"Drainingly powerful drama about Muslims in post 7/7 Britain, set out to uproot Western prejudices and to humanise terror suspects"
"It was about justice versus bigotry on both sides. The pro-British and the anti-British were as good as bad as each other".
"The action was sweatily tense and each twist as sudden as a smack in the mouth".
"Peter Kosminsky, intended merely to shock, but the positioning of this message, in isolation at the end, suggested it was the moral of the story".
"Britz had persuaded me to sympathise with Muslims who believe Britain is becoming a police state"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0991005/
"Two British - born Muslims siblings are drawn in radically different directions after 9/11"
"At the heart of this thought-provoking drama is a revealing examination of British Muslim life under current anti-terror legislation".
"Britz ulimately asks whether the laws we think are making us safer, are actually putting us in greater danger".
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britz/episode-guide/series-1
"Peter Kosminsky's drama about a British Muslim family who are pulled in radically different directions by their conflicting personal experiences in post 9/11 Britain"
"His desire to assimilate into every aspect of contemporary British culture sees him driven into the open arms of MI5 where his first assignment is to help track down a terrorist cell linked to July 7th London bombers".
"Sohail is forced to question where his loyalties really lie, with the Pakistani Muslim community or with the country of his birth, England"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3669027/Britz-blew-its-credibility-in-the-final-minute.html
"Drainingly powerful drama about Muslims in post 7/7 Britain, set out to uproot Western prejudices and to humanise terror suspects"
"It was about justice versus bigotry on both sides. The pro-British and the anti-British were as good as bad as each other".
"The action was sweatily tense and each twist as sudden as a smack in the mouth".
"Peter Kosminsky, intended merely to shock, but the positioning of this message, in isolation at the end, suggested it was the moral of the story".
"Britz had persuaded me to sympathise with Muslims who believe Britain is becoming a police state"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0991005/
"Two British - born Muslims siblings are drawn in radically different directions after 9/11"
"At the heart of this thought-provoking drama is a revealing examination of British Muslim life under current anti-terror legislation".
"Britz ulimately asks whether the laws we think are making us safer, are actually putting us in greater danger".
Quotes from three blogs
http://ranj-researchandproduction.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Despite the success of 'Slumdog Millionaire' why is that there is a still a lack of South Asian actors in Hollywood?
"Ethnic minorities are continually misrepresented by racial (and racist) stereotypes". - Laughey, D. (2009). p78
"Media stereotyping occurs when the roles and behaviour on personal characteristics of a particular group are portrayed in a limited fashion" - Willams, K. (2003). p.131.
"Ethnic minority viewers accused all broadcasters of tokenism and stereotyping, screening exaggerated and extreme representations of minorities and failing to reflect modern ethnic minority cultures". - http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/2008/07/top-soaps-accused-of-stereotyp.html
"Stereotypes are thus neither neutral nor fair, preventing the examinations of differences within groups" - Williams, K. (2003). p. 130
"As the media are highly selective in the way in which they construct and represent the world back to us" - Kruger, S. Rayner, P. Wall, P. (2004). p.47
http://mest4-mariam.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-does-r-genre-construct-certain.html
How does the R&B genre construct certain gender ideologies around artists such as Ne-Yo and Rihanna? Why might these ideologies be considered post-feminist?
"This is supported by Roland Barthes who says 'there is social probhibition against the feminization of men, there is almost none against the masculinisation of women." - Macdonald, M. (1995). Representing women: myths of femininity in the popular media. London: E.Arnold;.P215
"Although 'the majority of women still see themselves as housewives and a high proportion of product are aied at women in their traditional role rather than in their business role". - ASA Spokesperson in the Guardian, 26 June, 1978
http://mest4-mariam.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-does-r-genre-construct-certain.html
How does the R&B genre construct certain gender ideologies around artists such as Ne-Yo and Rihanna? Why might these ideologies be considered post-feminist?
"This is supported by Roland Barthes who says 'there is social probhibition against the feminization of men, there is almost none against the masculinisation of women." - Macdonald, M. (1995). Representing women: myths of femininity in the popular media. London: E.Arnold;.P215
"Although 'the majority of women still see themselves as housewives and a high proportion of product are aied at women in their traditional role rather than in their business role". - ASA Spokesperson in the Guardian, 26 June, 1978
http://bilaalmughalmest4.blogspot.com/2011/05/critical-investigation-final.html
How and why does graphic violence within video games such 'Call of Duty' attract a teenage demographic?
"Modern Warefare 2 contain images and narratives that resonate with and reinforce a tabloid imagery of post 9/11 geopolitics which "glorify military power and elicit content for the idea that state violence and wars are inevitable". - http://ejas.revues.org/8831 "Invading your hearts and minds": Call of duty* and the (re)writing of militarism in U.S. digital games and popular culture
How and why does graphic violence within video games such 'Call of Duty' attract a teenage demographic?
"Modern Warefare 2 contain images and narratives that resonate with and reinforce a tabloid imagery of post 9/11 geopolitics which "glorify military power and elicit content for the idea that state violence and wars are inevitable". - http://ejas.revues.org/8831 "Invading your hearts and minds": Call of duty* and the (re)writing of militarism in U.S. digital games and popular culture
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Book Quotes
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Muslims-Routledge-Studies-Liberty-Security/dp/0415776546/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1323115032&sr=8-8#reader_0415776546
Muslims in the West After 9/11
"Since 9/11 the debate on the compatibilty between Islam and Western political and cultural vaules has become increasingly public".
"The problem is the use of the concepts of "culture" and "civilzation", especially describing Islam".
"Islam has become the domain and privileged topic of terrorism".
"He suggests that current Islamic terroism discourse is the product of three disinct and very infleuntial genealogies".
"The discourse on Islamic terroism is predicated on binary oppositions: the West versus Islam, democracy anti-modernity and secularism versus religion".
"Islam is portrayed as inherently violent and Muslims are portrayed as desperately incapable of separating religion and politics".
"Terrorism is directly linked to fundamentalist forms of Islam, and thus the "bloody borders of Islam" stain much of the discourse on Islam".
"The post 9/11 situation has blurred the distinction between national and international politics when it comes to Islam".
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Framing-Muslims-Stereotyping-Representation-After/dp/0674048520/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323122817&sr=1-3Framing%20Muslims:%20Stereotypes%20and%20Representation%20After%209/11
Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11
"Islam and Freedom: Are they destined to clash?" (Newsweek).
"Such images are distored abstractions. Extraploating from context - specific controversies, they paint Muslims as a homogeneous, zombie-like body".
"Muslims now find themselves across large swathes of the world, and because of the stereotyping of Muslims takes place in repeated in acts of representation by polictians, by press and media".
"Muslims are stereotyped and "framed" within the polictial, cultural, and media discourses of the West".
"Far from being accurate or netural, contemporary images of Muslims presented by politicans and in the mainstream media and cultural forms are almost tied to an agenda that simulataneously accounces its desire to "engage" with them".
"All these stereotypes have emegened with the renewed force since 9/11".
Muslims in the West After 9/11
"Since 9/11 the debate on the compatibilty between Islam and Western political and cultural vaules has become increasingly public".
"The problem is the use of the concepts of "culture" and "civilzation", especially describing Islam".
"Islam has become the domain and privileged topic of terrorism".
"He suggests that current Islamic terroism discourse is the product of three disinct and very infleuntial genealogies".
"The discourse on Islamic terroism is predicated on binary oppositions: the West versus Islam, democracy anti-modernity and secularism versus religion".
"Islam is portrayed as inherently violent and Muslims are portrayed as desperately incapable of separating religion and politics".
"Terrorism is directly linked to fundamentalist forms of Islam, and thus the "bloody borders of Islam" stain much of the discourse on Islam".
"The post 9/11 situation has blurred the distinction between national and international politics when it comes to Islam".
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Framing-Muslims-Stereotyping-Representation-After/dp/0674048520/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323122817&sr=1-3Framing%20Muslims:%20Stereotypes%20and%20Representation%20After%209/11
Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11
"Islam and Freedom: Are they destined to clash?" (Newsweek).
"Such images are distored abstractions. Extraploating from context - specific controversies, they paint Muslims as a homogeneous, zombie-like body".
"Muslims now find themselves across large swathes of the world, and because of the stereotyping of Muslims takes place in repeated in acts of representation by polictians, by press and media".
"Muslims are stereotyped and "framed" within the polictial, cultural, and media discourses of the West".
"Far from being accurate or netural, contemporary images of Muslims presented by politicans and in the mainstream media and cultural forms are almost tied to an agenda that simulataneously accounces its desire to "engage" with them".
"All these stereotypes have emegened with the renewed force since 9/11".
Monday 5 December 2011
Five Book Names
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Muslims-Routledge-Studies-Liberty-Security/dp/0415776546/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1323115032&sr=8-8
Muslims in the West After 9/11
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Framing-Muslims-Stereotyping-Representation-After/dp/0674048520/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323122817&sr=1-3
Framing Muslims: Stereotypes and Representation After 9/11
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Islamophobia-Making-Muslims-Peter-Gottschalk/dp/0742552861/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323122896&sr=1-5
Islamphobia: Making Muslims the Enemy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reporting-Islam-Representations-British-Muslims/dp/1860646875
Reporting Islam: Media Representations of British Muslims
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Muslims_and_the_news_media.html?id=-zcIlDfHfn0C&redir_esc=y
Muslims and the News Media
Muslims in the West After 9/11
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Framing-Muslims-Stereotyping-Representation-After/dp/0674048520/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323122817&sr=1-3
Framing Muslims: Stereotypes and Representation After 9/11
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Islamophobia-Making-Muslims-Peter-Gottschalk/dp/0742552861/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323122896&sr=1-5
Islamphobia: Making Muslims the Enemy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reporting-Islam-Representations-British-Muslims/dp/1860646875
Reporting Islam: Media Representations of British Muslims
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Muslims_and_the_news_media.html?id=-zcIlDfHfn0C&redir_esc=y
Muslims and the News Media
5 Independent Quotes
http://www.independent.co.uk/hei-fi/views/yasmin-alibhaibrown-the-shadow-hanging-over-muslims-is-lifting-2351182.html?origin=internalSearch
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The shadow hanging over Muslims is lifting
1. "History, they say, was made and unmade on 9/11.The psychic shock seemed to first unite all humanity, but then Bush and Blair launched their sinister war on terror and our earth was split apart, gashed like those scenes you see after earthquakes".
2. "According to a New Statesman survey, 49 per cent of interviewees feared home-grown terrorists and only 21 per cent worry about foreign attackers".
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-david-camerons-message-is-that-muslims-are-not-wanted-2206381.html?origin=internalSearch
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: David Cameron's message is that Muslims are not wanted
3. "Muslims and migrants are being used to distract people from the planned chaos implemented by this unpopular coalition".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-islamification-of-britain-record-numbers-embrace-muslim-faith-2175178.html?origin=internalSearch
The Islamification of Britain: record numbers embrace Muslim faith
4. "Following the global spread of violent Islamism, British Muslims have faced more scrutiny, criticism and analysis than any other religious community".
5. The report by Faith Matters also studied the way converts were portrayed by the media and found that while 32 per cent of articles on Islam published since 2001 were linked to terrorism or extremism, the figure jumped to 62 per cent with converts.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The shadow hanging over Muslims is lifting
1. "History, they say, was made and unmade on 9/11.The psychic shock seemed to first unite all humanity, but then Bush and Blair launched their sinister war on terror and our earth was split apart, gashed like those scenes you see after earthquakes".
2. "According to a New Statesman survey, 49 per cent of interviewees feared home-grown terrorists and only 21 per cent worry about foreign attackers".
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-david-camerons-message-is-that-muslims-are-not-wanted-2206381.html?origin=internalSearch
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: David Cameron's message is that Muslims are not wanted
3. "Muslims and migrants are being used to distract people from the planned chaos implemented by this unpopular coalition".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-islamification-of-britain-record-numbers-embrace-muslim-faith-2175178.html?origin=internalSearch
The Islamification of Britain: record numbers embrace Muslim faith
4. "Following the global spread of violent Islamism, British Muslims have faced more scrutiny, criticism and analysis than any other religious community".
5. The report by Faith Matters also studied the way converts were portrayed by the media and found that while 32 per cent of articles on Islam published since 2001 were linked to terrorism or extremism, the figure jumped to 62 per cent with converts.
Thursday 1 December 2011
10 Guardian Quotes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/29/muslim-women-fighting-islamic-extremism?INTCMP=SRCH
Muslim women: beyond the stereotype
1. Despite Khan's frustration at stereotyping, she is not blind to the fact that not all Muslim women have had the same freedeom and opprtunites as she has, recongnising that there are "Muslim women not allowed to go out of the house".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/31/eastenders-gay-muslim?INTCMP=SRCH
A gay Muslim in EastEnders? Big deal
An EastEnders storyline featuring a gay Muslim character is unlikely to shake the community, depsite what some are predicting
2. "News of the plot comes just weeks after a Gallup survey was widely reported as revealing that British Muslims have 0% approval rating of gay lifestyles".
3. "Yes, traditional Islamic opinion, in line with the other Abrahamic faiths, advocates and promotes sexual expression between a husband and wife and disapproves of anything that falls outside those boundaries, hence the 0% statistic".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/28/eastenders-gay-love-affair?INTCMP=SRCH
Eastenders: Muslim character to have gay love affair
4. "The Masood family was introduced in 2007 following criticism that a previous Asian family, the Ferreiras, were not authentic. The intention was to develop the Masoods as "rounded human beings tackling the issues of day-to-day life in Albert Square", Santer said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/29/gay-muslims-britain?INTCMP=SRCH
What's it like being a gay Muslim?
5. "advised the BBC on the storyline in the hope that the character of Syed Masood would help tackle the double discrimination of homophobia and Islamophobia that many gay Muslims face".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/10/eastenders-bbc-john-yorke?INTCMP=SRCH
EastEnders is unrealistic, admits BBC drama exective"
6. "EastEnders is at its most entertaining when it has a typically preposterous long-running storyline. When it attempts to be earnest and realistic and look at all sides of an issue, that is where it can go wrong,"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/nov/30/islamandbritain.madeleinebunting
Young, Muslim and British
7. "The 'war on terror' has put British Muslims under the spotlight as never before".
8. "But the post 9/11 debates amongst Muslims on faith, identity and integration are rarely heard in the mainstream media".
9. "Insure, lacking self-confidence, haunted by failure and by personal experiences of deprivation, racism and, since 9/11, oppressive anti-terrorist measures and increasing Islamophobia".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/nov/30/islamandbritain4
'Politicians need to stop making Muslims scapegoats'
10. "The government lumped all Muslims together after September 11. Not just abroad, in counties such as Iraq and Afghanistan, but also domestically. The government demanded that Muslims condemn the terrorist actions of other Muslims. This meant British Muslims were associated with terrorists".
Muslim women: beyond the stereotype
1. Despite Khan's frustration at stereotyping, she is not blind to the fact that not all Muslim women have had the same freedeom and opprtunites as she has, recongnising that there are "Muslim women not allowed to go out of the house".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/31/eastenders-gay-muslim?INTCMP=SRCH
A gay Muslim in EastEnders? Big deal
An EastEnders storyline featuring a gay Muslim character is unlikely to shake the community, depsite what some are predicting
2. "News of the plot comes just weeks after a Gallup survey was widely reported as revealing that British Muslims have 0% approval rating of gay lifestyles".
3. "Yes, traditional Islamic opinion, in line with the other Abrahamic faiths, advocates and promotes sexual expression between a husband and wife and disapproves of anything that falls outside those boundaries, hence the 0% statistic".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/28/eastenders-gay-love-affair?INTCMP=SRCH
Eastenders: Muslim character to have gay love affair
4. "The Masood family was introduced in 2007 following criticism that a previous Asian family, the Ferreiras, were not authentic. The intention was to develop the Masoods as "rounded human beings tackling the issues of day-to-day life in Albert Square", Santer said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/29/gay-muslims-britain?INTCMP=SRCH
What's it like being a gay Muslim?
5. "advised the BBC on the storyline in the hope that the character of Syed Masood would help tackle the double discrimination of homophobia and Islamophobia that many gay Muslims face".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/10/eastenders-bbc-john-yorke?INTCMP=SRCH
EastEnders is unrealistic, admits BBC drama exective"
6. "EastEnders is at its most entertaining when it has a typically preposterous long-running storyline. When it attempts to be earnest and realistic and look at all sides of an issue, that is where it can go wrong,"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/nov/30/islamandbritain.madeleinebunting
Young, Muslim and British
7. "The 'war on terror' has put British Muslims under the spotlight as never before".
8. "But the post 9/11 debates amongst Muslims on faith, identity and integration are rarely heard in the mainstream media".
9. "Insure, lacking self-confidence, haunted by failure and by personal experiences of deprivation, racism and, since 9/11, oppressive anti-terrorist measures and increasing Islamophobia".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/nov/30/islamandbritain4
'Politicians need to stop making Muslims scapegoats'
10. "The government lumped all Muslims together after September 11. Not just abroad, in counties such as Iraq and Afghanistan, but also domestically. The government demanded that Muslims condemn the terrorist actions of other Muslims. This meant British Muslims were associated with terrorists".
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