#media representation

[akajustmerry]

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‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Can’t Escape Its Own White Gaze by Merryana Salem / Killers Of The Flower Moon (2023). Dir. Martin Scorsese

#killers of the flower moon #martin scorsese #lily gladstone #indigenous #media representation #writing #read the full article if you can guys my editors are looking for any excuse to claim i am not good at my job rn #/

[shesnake]

Early on in Saltburn, Emerald Fennell’s sophomore feature, Barry Keoghan’s Oliver Quick bickers with an Oxford classmate. “You’re picking apart the style of my essay instead of the substance?” he retorts. “That’s kind of... lazy.” It’s a valid point. Unfortunately, it’s one that is impossible to apply to Saltburn, a film consisting of only style and no substance.

Saltburn follows in a very new, increasingly boring-as-hell lineage – the ‘eat the rich’ satire. From Succession to Triangle of Sadness to You, raising the highly controversial suggestion that rich people might not be great has become a gauchely-named genre in and of itself. Saltburn is the first aggressively British entry into this canon, and the potential was there – Britain is a country with a vigilantly stratified class system that dictates our lives, after all. There’s so much to say. But can Emerald Fennell, an Oxford-educated daughter of a high society jeweller who attended the same boarding school as Kate Middleton, be the director to say it? Well…

#saltburn #emerald fennell #media representation #film #cin #crit #lgbtcinema #get her ass!!!

[daloy-politsey]

According to the report, while TEN estimates that one in five Jewish American households earn less than $50,000 a year, they are one-tenth as likely as wealthy Jews to appear in movies and TV shows. Moore primarily focused on works made since 2008, concluding that only three of 85 films during that time depicted Jewish poverty at all and that Jewish poverty is typically portrayed in the context of American Dream-style upward mobility. Some portrayals of wealth in Jewish communities conform to antisemitic stereotypes, the study concludes.

#jumblr #media representation

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

Everything Everywhere All at Once Passes Return of the King as Most-Awarded Movie Ever

Everything Everywhere All at Once can add another historic win to its list.

According to IGN’s calculations, the multiversal hit is now the most-awarded film ever with 158 accolades to date from major critics organizations and awards bodies. This spot was previously held by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which earned 101 major awards by IGN’s math. (via IGN)

#everything everywhere all at once #michelle yeoh #daniel kwan #ke huy quan #stephanie hsu #james hong #representation in media #media representation #film #news #article

[godlesshasideas]

Write more characters with physical disabilities. Write more characters with mental disabilities. Write characters with neurodivergence (more than one specific type too). Write characters with mobility aids. Write characters who have good and bad health days. Write characters who are chronically in pain, but don't express it every second. Write characters who were born with a disability. Write characters who developed one. Write characters who have adapted to the world around them because the world won't adapt for them. Write about their strengths and weaknesses due to their disability. Write about accessibility. Write about inaccessibility. Make it realistic.

Don't make the disability magically disappear or be cured (or at least be mindful of how you write that). Don't make it their entire personality but also don't skip over it. Don't use stereotypes (and that's not just with disabilities). Don't make the character actively hate their disability; they're allowed to be upset but most people with disabilities have learned to accept it as part of their life and accept it as part of their identity.

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing advice #writing community #creative writing #if you don't know how research it #that's a huge part of writing #media representation #accessibility #disability representation #neurodiversity #disabled characters #writing disabilities #writing disabled characters

[showmethesneer]

Something very specific about how Jaskier's bi/pan sexuality was portrayed really resonated with me.

The scene with Vespula when they talk about him having a crush on Radovid...

I am a bisexual femme, married to a woman. I have only had serious, meaningful relationships with women. I have only casually dated, slept with, had crushes on men. My feelings for/attraction to anyone at any given time has never negated my feelings for/attraction to anyone else. For the most part, my partners have understood that. Sometimes, talking about my crush or experiences with one person has even been a kind of foreplay with another person. I don't think I've ever seen that specific thing portrayed before.

Vespula is telling Jaskier all about himself, talking about this crush he has on this other man, whilst crawling into the bed to sleep with him again. She not only accepts his crush on someone else, she playfully teases him about that crush and uses it to flirt with him; all while acknowledging that Jaskier having that crush does not take away from how excited he is to be in bed with her in this moment.

I felt so seen.

I'm not saying this is everyone's bi/pan experience. I'm just saying this is something that was extremely familiar to my own life and I was blown away seeing it depicted.

And i wonder how much of that was Joey Batey's input. The way he talked about avoiding stereotypes and how he had to personally rip the first drafts apart and explain how to handle this story properly, I can imagine how that relationship was originally handled. I can imagine a draft of the script where Vespula addresses this crush and accuses him of not being genuinely into women at all or some other bi/pan erasure bullshit that is all too common with bi/pan characters. It was refreshing to see this portrayal play out. And more than refreshing, it felt like my actual life.

#jaskier #joey batey #the witcher #bi pride #bisexual #pansexual #lgbtqia #media representation #queer characters #radskier #vespula

[voidwithtoomanygooglyeyes]

Communities I want to see represented (more) in media

Agender community

Xenogenders

Neopronouns

Therians (or just the altherhuman/non-human community in general)

AroAllo people (aromantic allosexual)

A-spec identities that aren't just aromantic and asexual (e.g. demiromantic, greysexual, aroflux, demisexual)

Polyamorous people

Queerplatonic relationships

Religions other than Christianity

Gender-non-conforming trans people

Intersex people (thank you @prudr-ragr077 I was going to add this originally but forgot)

#agender #lgbt #xenogenders #neopronouns #therian #alterhuman #aroallo #media representation #a-spec #polyamory #queerplatonic #communities I want more representation of

[captainhappyclaws]

Nathan, Annalise & Gabriel

from Half Bad: The bastard son & the devil himself

[Okay so I DID A THING AHDJSJ I love this show sm. Wish more ppl saw it]

#the bastard son & the devil himself #half bad #nathan byrne #annalise o'brien #Gabriel boutin #nathan x annalise x gabriel #polyamory #polyam relationship #Canon #collage #lgbt representation #ot3 #canon lgbt #tbs&tdh #my edit #polyam pride #polyamourous #media representation #tbsatdh #nabrielise #jay lycurgo #nadia parkes #emilien vekemans

[futurecorps3]

Representation fucking matters.

Before watching the new Black Panther movie I really didn’t feel the need for it. Ofc I got why people wanted to be seen in big screens and different platforms but never really felt identified with the feeling people described. (I’m a member of the lgbt community as well but since I grew up on a very open household with a loving family that opened that part of the culture to me it was never a big thing).

Today that changed when I saw brown people on screen. I saw people who look like me and my friends and the ones I see on the streets everyday. I’m a Mexican woman, born and raised in Mexico and getting to see such a beautiful representation of my culture and people warmed my heart and made me feel exactly what minorities who were overshadowed by western media describe.

They even included Mayan legends on it, which I’ve always found absolutely beautiful. I live near some ruins (Teotihuacán, look it up) and it’s quite beautiful to see elements I saw on field trips and history classes represented on a movie. And not just any movie, a marvel movie. I grew up with them and seeing my culture developing in the same universe was just mesmerizing.

If you read this all the way, thank you. Means the world <3

#representation #wakanda forever #black panther #chadwick boseman #tenoch huerta #mexico #mexican #media representation #marvel #mcu x reader #mcu imagine #mcu namor #namoredit

[goblinofthelaboratory]

so I've heard discourse about nonhuman rep for nonbinary people, aro/ace spec, neurodivergence (especially autism), etc. amalgamating a few different opinions I've heard, I propose that not all characters of those types should be inhuman, all inhuman characters must be at least one of them. your alien/robot/cryptid/other nonhuman understands gender and romance and sexual attraction and human social norms? unrealistic do better

#nonbinary #neurodivergent #neurospicy #gender #aroace #aromantic #asexual #autism #actuallyautistic #queer #alien #nonhuman #inhumans #otherhuman #void #transgender #queer representation #representation matters #social commentary #media representation #eternal goblin chatter in my brain #<- retroactive organization tag

[selectivechaos]

i need more media rep of disabled friendships. autistic friendships. social anxiety friendships.

i don’t need media with abled people being friends with a disabled person. i don’t need an allistic being friends with an autistic person. it’s not bad; i just want them both to be autistic. i want them both to be disabled. i want them both to have ocd, depression, anxiety, or anything else.

like troy and abed. sorry to fandom post on this blog but: troy needs things explained to him clearly or he gets confused; abed needs help with social cues and other stuff. like they both need each other and help each other and i love it.

i love that they care about and understand each other in a way that does not come from an allistic person trying to see a different experience and life to theirs; i love characters that look to eachother and see parallel but diverse experiences and their desire to help comes from the same place as their experience of needing help. 🌹🌹

#trobed #community nbc #social anxiety disorder #actually disabled #media representation #not sm/sad

[akajustmerry]

Let's Talk Native Representation In Media: Oppenheimer Whitewashes History

#oppenheimer #indigenous #native #native representation #media representation #films #history #/

[shesnake]

Christopher Cote, an Osage language consultant on the project and one of many Osage members who attended its Los Angeles premiere Monday, told THR he was “nervous about the release of the film; now that I’ve seen it, I have some strong opinions.

“As an Osage, I really wanted this to be from the perspective of Mollie and what her family experienced, but I think it would take an Osage to do that,” Cote said, referencing Lily Gladstone’s character in the movie. (Historical spoilers from the film ahead.) “Martin Scorsese, not being Osage, I think he did a great job representing our people, but this history is being told almost from the perspective of Ernest Burkhart [played by Leonardo DiCaprio] and they kind of give him this conscience and kind of depict that there’s love. But when somebody conspires to murder your entire family, that’s not love. That’s not love, that’s just beyond abuse.”

He continued, “I think in the end, the question that you can be left with is: How long will you be complacent with racism? How long will you go along with something and not say something, not speak up, how long will you be complacent? I think that’s because this film isn’t made for an Osage audience, it was made for everybody, not Osage. For those that have been disenfranchised, they can relate, but for other countries that have their acts and their history of repression, this is an opportunity for them to ask themselves this question of morality, and that’s how I feel about this film.”

#killers of the flower moon #christopher cote #martin scorsese #film #cin #media representation #racism #Indigenous representation

[jewishcissiekj]

So much about current DC is so casually or clearly antisemitic it's just painful at this point.

So I was going through the Solicitations for Dc's December comics and I got so fucking mad To start it off, one of the first things I see when I open Instagram after Rosh HaShana is Superman drawn as Jesus/a Christ figure for an official cover by Jorge Jimenez. Then, there's an entire event throughout November and December in DC that's centered around Santa Claus. All well and fine, but two of the leading characters that have been chosen to hang around Santa are Harley Quinn and Damian Wayne, both very much ethnically Jewish at least.

These two characters' Jewishness is ambiguous and barely mentioned, so maybe DC just forgot? But that's exactly part of it, how these characters are very much Jewish going into their families and heritage, but DC chooses to ignore that repeatedly, making that part of their identities irrelevant and unmentioned. Not only that, but DC keeps hiring the same artist who's known to be a N@zi (and a CP artist), Otto Schmidt, for some of their Christmas and Santa covers. It makes me soooo mad and it's so, so wrong on so many levels.

The last time in recent memory I can recall a character's Jewish heritage being acknowledged in a recent DC comic I read, was with Hal Jordan, in Knight Terrors: Green Lantern, only because a Twitter user told the series writer Hal was Jewish, or he wouldn't know otherwise. I never understand why it's the fans' obligation to remind a writer of a character's heritage or ethnicity, why isn't it already known to the writer? Why are these things, which are a big part of so many people's lives are so largely ignored in stories that discuss these people's lives?

It's a gut kick at the worst level and it hurts like hell. It makes it a million times worse that it's not only Judaism and characters' Jewishness. It's all aspects and types of culture, from Selina Kyle's essentially erased and forgotten of ethnicity to whitewashing Damian Wayne and so on. God I hate it.

#dc comics #judaism #superman #judaism in media #antisemitism #harley quinn #damian wayne #hal jordan #green lantern #comics #otto schmidt #jorge jimenez #rant #personal #but also #important #sick and tired #furious and annoyed #media representation

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

Here are some of 2024’s most anticipated new TV shows featuring Asians on screen. Which show are you looking for?!

📺 THE BROTHERS SUN (@netflix): 1/4 📺 EXPATS (@primevideo): 1/26 📺 MR. AND MRS. SMITH (@primevideo): 2/2 📺 ONE DAY (@Netflix): 2/8 📺 @AVATARNetflix (@netflix): 2/22 📺 @SHOGUNFX (@fxnetworks@hulu): 2/27 📺 3 BODY PROBLEM (@netflix): 3/21 📺 @SYMPATHIZERhbo (@hbo@streamonmax): TBD 📺 THE ACOLYTE (@disneyplus): TBD

*List based on TV shows officially confirmed for 2024. Premiere dates subject to change.

(via capeusa on IG)

#the brothers sun #avatar: the last airbender #atla netflix #the acolytes #the sympathizer #shogun #3 body problem #expats #mr and mrs smith #one day #media representation #representation in media #news

[bossymarmalade]

Okay, here's the thing about the Netflix live action Avatar: the Last Airbender series --

Is it as complex and near-perfect in pace and characterization and message and narrative as the cartoon? No. Nothing could be. Sometimes a piece of media hits right the first time, and all you can do is make a different version of it.

Does it deserve to be watched anyhow? Absolutely yes. And you know why? I've watched white-focused media that was on the same level in terms of satisfactory adaptation (Sandman, seeing as I was reading the comics thirty years ago and am fond of it) and also media that's been way worse, and still enjoyed it for what it was.

You have to enjoy it for what it is, not that it's not the A:TLA cartoon. The story's condensed but it's not as wretched as all these reviews make it out to be. The problem with Katara's feminism/Sokka's misogyny not being satisfactorily represented is blown out of proportion imo. It's not a 1:1 ratio to the cartoon. The live action has to handle it in a slightly different way.

Honestly I'm enjoying it and I'll tell you why: it looks EXACTLY like the cartoon. Because it's people of colour in those costumes, in that world, using those items. Every episode produces some Asian actor I've known and loved in some new role and it's enough to get me teary-eyed because even if it's not a perfect and flawlessly-rendered version of ATLA, we're there and we're represented as real people. The voice actors for the cartoon were wonderful and mostly white. This is us in the LIVING FLESH.

Maybe it's a sign of my age that I'm more willing to go easy on this show and not hold it to the super-stringent standards that anything made by poc gets held to, I dunno. That's entirely possible. But I truly don't think it deserves the bad press it's been getting.

#chromatic geeky #netflix avatar #netflix atla #says miss maggie #media representation