Автор:Jesse Russell Год: 2013 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 114 ISBN: 9785514247882 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 'The presence of African Americans in major motion picture roles has been a conversation since Hattie McDaniel played Mammy, the house servant, in Gone with the Wind. "Through most of the 20th century, images of African-Americans in advertising were mainly limited to servants like the pancake-mammy Aunt Jemima and Rastus, the chef on the Cream of Wheat box." The roles the African American community are generally offered usually fall into three themes; a tale of rags to riches, thug life, or segregation. "Many researchers argue that media portrayals of minorities tend to reflect whites' attitudes toward minorities and, therefore, reveal more about whites themselves than about the varied and lived experiences of minorities", and though these are one groups (white peoples) opinions it still seems to dominate mainstream media. Even in today’s movies the roles for an African American performer fall under similar typecast roles, the biggest movie...
