Objectives

• View texts
• Discuss and compare
• Explore theory
• Write analytical paragraph
• Peer assess
 Watch

Guess whose coming

to dinner?
 Discuss

• What would you say was the ‘social context’

for the film?
• Is this ‘social context’ trapped historically?
• How does SHEP affect the representation of
African American’s in this film trailer?
 Write

• Write a short paragraph exploring the issues

of social context.
A2 Representation
Black Hollywood
 View
In the Heat of the Ni
ght
Mississippi Burning
Watts riots 1968
 Develop

• The 1960’s in the US was a time of great

change.
• Can it be argued that Hollywood was leading
that change?
 View
Rodney King
Malcom X
 Context

• What point is Spike Lee trying to make in the

opening of Malcolm X?
 Essay
• It has been said that media representations
often reflect the social and political concerns
of the age in which they are created. Discuss.

• You have 45 minutes to write an answer to

this essay using your study of Black
Hollywood.