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An Exploration of the dynamics of 'ghetto masculinity' and the upholding of negative representations in 'Training Day'.
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Alison Benton An Exploration of the dynamics of 'ghetto masculinity' and the upholding of negative representations in 'Training Day'. I am going to look at the ways in which 'Training Day' uses mythic stereotypes of black males and 'ghetto masculinity' to portray negative representations of black society in America, and how hegemonic values of white audiences leaves these representations unquestioned. My main focus will be the representation of the main protagonist, Alonzo, an African American police officer played by Denzel Washington. First I will look at the history and background of Black representation in film. Early Black cinema, known as The Plantation Genre, began in 1915 with the release of 'Birth of a Nation' an overtly anti-black film which represented black slaves as untrustworthy and immoral and included positive representations of the Klu Klux Klan. In 1939 'Gone With the Wind' contradicted these representations by portraying black slaves as loyal and...
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