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.

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.”

t becomes visually clear who Green Book was for allalong

cutout from the majority of shots televised to the entire nation, which only featurethe white artists standing center stage.

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 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

The “interracial buddy formula, which uses fictional friendships to ignore insti-tutionalized racism,” is not uncommon

Civil War as “a story for white people—acted out by white people, on whitepeople’s terms—in which Blacks feature strictly as stock characters and props”

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

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

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

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

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

Hollywood cinema is essential to our national under-standing and memory of events

While films are indeed products of a dominant ideology,they are also actively producing and maintaining the sameideology which formed them

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

84%white (and 68% male)

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

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)

“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

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)

diversity is a “journey”—something that doesn’t happenovernight.

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

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”

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

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.

However, it was the sixth year in a row where no Latinx people were nominated

and the fact that we'veconsistently and literally built this industry on our blood, sweat and talent,

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

on January 22, 2016, just eight days after theall-white Oscar nominations were announced.

since 1929, only five women have received “Best Director” nominations overall andjust one has won

Author Tre’vell Andersonsaid the industry needs more people outside of what Hollywood traditionally considers worthy

to lookfor talent and provide opportunity to everybody

huck D also said that the Oscars have always been “white” and that they need “Blackcommunities to support the arts as much as we do sports”

gatekeepers decide what gets made and what gets jettisoned to 'turnaround' or [the] scrapheap. (Ng, 2016, para. 18)

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

Hollywood films continue to whitewash storytelling and fail to depict Latinx, Black and Asianspeaking characters on screen or behind the camera

Hollywood flaunts white privilege happenedthrough a practice called “whitewashing,” or casting white actors as nonwhite characters.

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

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)

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].

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

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

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

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

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

push the topics through social media or news releases in anattempt to influence the news media to cover them.

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

t is the appearance on the front page of the Times thatfrequently legitimates a topic as newsworthy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

sing hashtags around specific social issues has resulted in whatjournalists called “hashtag activism,”

unique features of always-onpersistence, light-weight scripting, open infrastructural base, and portable back-end interface

Twitter, which has had a growing role infacilitating revolutions

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 mediahas become a catalyst for change in the 21st century

the mainstream film industry does notrepresent the country and its film viewing audience

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

released from January 2014 – December 2016

it better represents society as a whole and has a better chance ofsucceeding in the box office

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

which help shape their identity that they will carry throughouttheir life.

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

ages of 3 and 7 and gave them two different dolls

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”

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).

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

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...”

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”

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

how social media has facilitated conversations and action around diversity.

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

#OscarsSoWhite movement in major media outlets across the country, have helped cast aspotlight on the topic of racial diversity.

vow todouble the number of women and people of color in AMPAS’ membership by 2020

Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

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

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).

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).

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,

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

It was the firsttime in the history of the Academy Awards that 75% of the ceremony’s acting winners werepeople of color

agenda setting theory

salient

2016 Academy Awards were announced with no peopleof color included.