The Male Gaze in Posters

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Task 1 –  

Subaltern – of a lower status. 

Orientalism – the representation of Asia in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude. 

Diaspora – the spread of people away from their original homeland.  

Exoticism – being attractive due to being unusual/ style characteristic of a foreign country 

Mimicry – imitating something or someone to ridicule them.  

Otherness – the quality of being different.  

Task 2 –  

I think a film that expresses some of the themes of the poem is The Lost City of Z. In the film British explorers travel to the amazon to try and map it out. Whilst they are there, they discover the remains of an old city that was quite advanced. When they return to England the explorers and the native people of the Amazon try to convince people to help them look for the city. However, the people in the archaeological society do not believe that the native people could have built things such as waterways and pottery as they are treated as less civilised. They are laughed at for suggesting that they could have been an advanced society as it is expressed by them that without assistance from the British people, they would not be able to do anything alone. This reflects the idea of the poem that white colonisation was thought of as helping the other races to become more civilised even though it was actually harming them and treating them as subordinate.  

Subaltern – Describe someone as a low rank or class

Orientalism – The way the west views easten culture

Diaspora – The dispersion of people from their homeland

exoticism – Exoticism is a trend in European art and design, whereby artists became fascinated with ideas and styles from distant regions, and drew inspiration from them

mimicry – When members of a colonized society imitate the language, dress, polotics and culture of their colonizers

Otherness – how minority or less powerful groups are positioned as inferior to dominant groups

Activity 2

Dances with wolves

This film presents the themes of Kipling’s poem ‘White Man’s Burden’ through the white American’s views of the Nativie American way of life. However the main concept of this film juxtaposes these themes by showing a white American embracing the culture and life style of the Native Americans. The white Americans do not understand why the main characters embraces their life style and maintain trying to infroce their culters and way of life on everyone. This eventually leads to the colonisation of the native americans.