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    1. The writers, the direc-tor, and the producers have all worked so tirelessly for this character, a symbol ofeach of them and their forgivable racism, to be rewarded, thus it is unthinkablewhen he is not.

      they are hiding behind the guys who says "well im not racist, I have black friends"

    2. It is through a mode of careful tiptoeing around direct conversations about race,in order to make white people feel comfortable about their own complacencyand racism, that Green Book has succeeded under the guise of “love.”

      frustrating

    3. ilm professedly about the goodthat comes from Black people and white people banding together, to possess adiverse creative team, in order to empower the same people—financially, withreal, material benefits—that it is trying to empower with its message. Instead, ourtext reveals a sea of white men climbing up onto the Dolby Theater’s stage toclaim Green Book’s prize. In a group of about 25 to 30 people standing on stage

      the speech video really shows who was behind the whole thing

    4. the segregated south of the 1960s becomes not a story of systemic injusticeand Black perseverance, but a convenient setting for a white man’s perverse anddistorted coming-of-age (coming-of-race?) story

      this makes good sense

    5. “an establishment more interested in the alleged sins perpetrated uponConfederates than in the all-too-real sins perpetrated upon the enslaved peoplein their midst

      always trying to make the bad guys look good

    6. “especially important sites for the production, reproduction, andtransformation of ideologies”

      the top people are able to paint whatever picture they want of certain groups of people, if it is an oppressor at the top, of course they will write films to feed into stereotypes

    7. deological product of the system, “the racial representations that audiencessee will adhere to the racial order of the given moment”

      films share views of race in present day... thats not rly what I mean but you get it

    8. cyclical relationship betweenfilm and the production of a culture’s dominant ideology and vice versa

      where the closed world gets their views of people who look different than them

    9. Don Shirley and his musical talents) who exhibits “extreme characteristics thatdistinguish them from other Blacks... to maintain a colorblind ideology... thatcolor does not matter”

      using token people to represent whole communities

    10. the neo-liberal, colorblind strain of racism which pervades both the AcademyAwards and the film industry at large.

      the worst kind... very much gaslighting and sweepng the issues under the rug

    1. While the words “diversity” and “inclusion” arewidely employed to talk about reforming the industry, they often have the effect of renderingissues of power, privilege, and discrimination

      less talking more doing.

    2. sixth year ina row that no Latinx actors have been nominated for an acting Academy Award, and only 1% ofOscar nominations have gone to Asian actors in the past 89 years (Tseng-Putterman, 2018)

      damn

    3. “there is something powerful about seeing people on the big or small screenwho look like you. That is universal to human beings” (2016, para. 18). This supports the ideathat when real-world exposure is lacking, those mass mediated representations can often build,reinforce, or reject personally held stereotypes

      yes

    4. identity is a “moveable feast”—formed and transformedcontinuously in relation to the ways we are represented or addressed in the cultural systems thatsurround us (1987)

      true

    5. racial diversity,diversity other than race, the voting system within the Academy Awards, and overall TV ratingsfor the annual ceremony

      issues the oscarssowhite movement brought to light

    6. it didn’t change the lack of progress being made in the ranks of the studio executives, the lownumber of female directors, and that consequences for bad behavior “still seem to go by a slidingscale based on whom your connections are or your potential at the box office”

      so the major issue is the people at the box office?

    7. marked AMPAS as an infallible institution and even defended the nominations in 2016, rallyingbehind #OscarsSoRight

      the people that worked hard feel like everything is a handout to other people

    8. backlash against #OscarsSoWhite for the Oscars brand and thefinancial implications of diversity in films, mainly focusing on box office sales and viewershipof the annual ceremony.

      always about the money

    9. writers showed how this lack of diversity in the nominations affectedaudiences and how better representation in films was beneficial for society.

      when you include everyone, more people want to join

    10. A lot of this is about who's cutting the checks, running the companies, calling the shots.Mostly, as we know, those people are white men, and while I have no complaint againstthem as a class of people (some of my best friends are white guys), none of this willchange until they actively help bring about the necessary change or until the country'sdemographics force them out. (Dargis et. al, 2016, para. 26

      please push out the white man!

    11. conversation about #OscarsSoWhite focused too much on the Black community and left out thenation’s largest minority group: Latinx.

      very good point that Latinx is the biggest minority in the US yet most issues of race end up in the black and white territory.

    12. When the majority of your members are old white men, they won't understand movieslike 'Beasts of No Nation,’ but they will sit through a movie like ‘The Revenant’ andthrow it all the nominations they can muster. They'll leave out Ryan Coogler in the bestdirector category for ‘Creed,’ only to nominate Sylvester Stallone for an Oscar for thesame movie. (Callahan, 2016, para. 6)

      Also interesting to think about the people actually voting, as previously said, when they are all in the same camp of old white men, there will be no diversity in films that are nominated.

    13. it's five men making the decisions and they're all in the same camp, it's going to be all ofthe same kind of films [in the theaters].

      So interesting to think how few people control everything

    14. actor Mark Ruffalo said that this diversity problem “isn’t just theAcademy Awards,” but “the entire America system is rife with white privilege racism”

      I appreciate actors and actresses who see the world for what it is and use their voices

    15. #OscarsSoWhite, implying a highlevel of salience for the issues of diversity and representation in the film industry

      NYT and LAT are in the heart of disparity in racial representation, and maybe they broadcast to more people of color.

    16. Asians and Latinx; while the Los Angeles Times put a stronger spotlight specifically on Latinx;and The Root highlighted the Black and Asian communities.

      possibly serving the highest population in each community?

    17. The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times with the keywords “Oscars” or "AcademyAward," and “Oscarssowhite" or "so white" or “diversity” or “inclusive” to show the relationshipbetween the award show with the social media movement and racial diversity that werepublished between January 1 and March 1 in the years of 2016 – 2019

      good words to search up

    18. #OscarsSoWhite, which has helped shape the conversation about diversity in the AcademyAwards

      so attention is being brought, but the view of the movement could be skewed through certain framing

    19. Additionally, the reaction by the public to an initial frame can affect theadministration’s revised frames, showing that multiple people can influence the frameproduction process

      this is very complex and I feel like involves a lot of psychology and strategy. Overall just know frames can determine how a person perceives media.

    20. TV stations serving the city and they were all controlled by the government’s KMT politicalparty. No agenda setting effects were found for TV news.

      when you are able to control the media, you are able to brainwash the civilians. Cause why wouldn't they believe the leader if he only shares the good.

    21. “the mass media set the agenda for each political campaign,influencing the salience of attitudes toward the political issues”

      Politicians are just playing a game, and they see what people care about and use it as a carrot to dangle over our heads.

    22. For this study,which explores how an online social movement was covered by the news media, it is importantto understand how media create salience and frame stories for consumption.

      news outlets that older people watch pick and choose what they want to share from social media which usually adds fuel to the flame of activists. No ne likes their words being twisted

    23. it gained mainstream traction in October 2017 as #MeTooafter alleged sexual misconduct in Hollywood

      it may take awhile for the traction to sprout, but once it does, you see the power it has in getting rid of bad people

    24. social media in current and past uprisings in Egyptafforded visibility to marginalized voices and enabled alternative narratives of dissention.

      we see the same thing with Palestine, the Congo and Sudan as well as other places. Social media creates a voice larger than those who are suffering.

    25. While some dismissed the correlation between social media andthe protests, others viewed social media as important to current social movements in similarways to how the printing press and other media helped facilitate revolutions in the past

      I feel like the difference comes from whether you are on social media or not

    26. applications are suited for viral marketing as the community element embedded in the platformsmakes it easy to transmit the marketing message to a large number of people.

      social media is a way to make change, if people know what is going on with other people, it creates a reason to fight for what is right

    27. directors working primarily with independent studios experience disadvantages in theatricalreleases of their films compared to directors working mostly with major studios

      its always a money and power thing

    28. Positive racial representation can help abolish internalized stereotypes, increase self-esteem, andenhance awareness of the world

      when people believe everything you see on the internet, it is important for there to be diverse representation because especially kids internalize what they see. If they see no one like them, they may feel not good enough or incapable.

    29. results revealed that children, both white andBlack, internalized stereotypes early on by consuming popular media and entertainment

      social media is so powerful, especially when your brain is developing. It is too much.

    30. white savior complex, reinforcing the notion that only white bodies are able to save anoppressed minority, ultimately emphasizing how “people of color can escape their predicamentof marginalization through the guidance and agency of lone white actors”

      It is so frustrating that white people have this sense engraved in their minds. Why do white people think they can do whatever they want.

    31. A phenomenon in which a person of color/non-white person full integrates into whiteculture and strips themselves of any non-white cultural affiliations; commonly used todescribe individuals who do not fall into their racial identity, but abide by social norms,trends, and tendencies of white communities. (Yang, 2017, p. 5).

      I can only imagine the challenge of trying to fit in while holding true to your culture. When people make fun of it, it is discouraging to practice it. I hate that people make other people so uncomfortable that they dont feel able to express themselves culturally. Why can't people just appreciate other cultures. The US is a goddamn melting pot I thought.

    32. there is a strong relationship between messages being received through media about beingblack and how people identify as black

      people want to act like how they see older people act on tv. Media really reinforces this cap placed on certain groups of people.

    33. typically equated thesenarrow-minded and negative media representations with the real world, which can lead to racialminorities experiencing “less attention from doctors to harsher sentencing by judges, lowerlikelihood of being hired for a job or admitted to school...”

      exactly

    34. For example, when viewers who lackexposure to diverse populations of people, what happens onscreen is often one way for viewersto “glean information about the world”

      how stereotypes are created possibly. I like this point for people in small towns or areas that lack diversity. The media is their lens into a different world, yet the media is not real life

    35. any perceiveddifferences among people, such as age, race, functional specialty, profession, sexual preference,geographic origin, lifestyle, or profession

      good broad definition of diversity

    36. role of the news media in the changing diversity of the major awards show

      aligns with my question... looking deeper into what news is broadcasted could reveal a disproportionate amount of coverage, or an abundance of coverage

    37. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, andThe Root, which aimed to shed light on the lack of diversity in the Academy Awards.

      Interesting that these big news outlets were so interested. I guess they are mostly liberal news sources.

    38. From 2007 – 2013, only 15 non-white actors were nominated in thefour acting categories of the Academy Awards out of 200 total nominees, and between2014-2016, not a single person of color was nominated (Berman, 2016).

      Wow. Very telling.

    39. in 2016, Reign reignited the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, which called out the Academy Awardsfor its lack of diversity. This movement’s goal was for entertainment companies to be moreinclusive when hiring for film production and providing opportunities to talented designers andartists from underrepresented groups of people (Reign, 2018).

      good overview of what he movement is

    40. so the optics of this ceremony were important because three years prior, the major actingcategories for “Best Actor, “Best Supporting Actress,” and “Best Supporting Actor” lacked asingle person of color as a nominee,

      did they do that on purpose to stop the activists?

    41. we made a film about a gay man and an immigrant whowas unapologetically himself. It’s proof we’re longing for stories like this.

      people do want realness and films like this create that for audiences. People want relatable, and a lot of people of color can relate in certain situations. It is cute how he mentions his curly haired mind as a reflection of childhood.