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Equality act 2010 

 

Music Halls

• G H Elliot – white singers/dancers dressed up as a ‘Minstrel’ by wear black makeup.

• Performers would have been middle aged, nowadays are younger

• Women were the main part on stages of British music hall

• Vesta Tilley would dress and act as a man to enable her to perform her comedy and singing act.

• Jazz clubs used black artists but they were not allowed to use the same entrances or facilities as their white colleagues.

• Wild exotic animals would be used on stage

 

Silent films

• Stanford White Murder – confirmed that a girl working in theater or movies was the object of desire of men in an unwholesome way – not want a young girl to be.

• Female actress was usually attractive ‘good’ character with the male being the baddy = women more popular by public

 

 

Golden age of Hollywood

1930 to 1960

• Great time for films and producing some iconic actors – still view roles for black actors other than servants Sydney poitier

• Women were still portrayed as wives and girlfriends, usually vulnerable and very rarely ‘the lead’

• There were characters written with physical disabilities, but any chacacters written with physical disabilities – but the character would have been played by an able body

• Best actress Oscar 1948 

• Loretta young – the farmers daughter. A comedy of her success

 

 

Tv

• Nan winton tried as newsreader 1960 but soon axed – serious stuff not suitable for woman -She felt discrimated against

• 1976, USA, first woman newreader Barbara Walters

• 1960’s 70’s programmes were racist and sexist

• Comedians regularly made offending jokes

• prime time tv – bernald manning – offensive 

• Love thy neighbor (1970) – more racist than the comedian

 

 

Fashion and editorial

• new york – supermodel Iman  joined Naomi Campbell and veteran modeling agent Bethann Hardison for an unusual effort they are calling balance diversity

• Naomi Campbell first black model to appear on the front cover of British vogue as late as 1987

• Size 0 – normal women are not represented on runways

 

 

Commercials

• Manufacturers use actors to sell their products

• Very few companies use black actos, Asian actors

 

 

Hollywood today

• Women have more roles and now take the lead

• Actors of many ethnic origins now regularly appear alongside one another

• Men can play the romantic lead until they are quite elderly – Michael Douglas. Women do not have the same opportunity there are more roles for older actresses but there are a select few

 

 

Unnacceptable stereotypes

• Hero is white villain is black.

• Women is housewives and secretaries, the man is ceo or boss.

• Homeless people are criminals, drug dealers and uneducated.

• Gay men are camp and effeminate.

• However most recently the teacher and respectable citizen is a drug dealer in ‘breaking bad’