Ethnicity Representation in media

Ethnicity means an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties; "ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations"
The media often represents different ethnicitys in a generalised way so they are more easily identifiable to a wide audience. For example, British people are often shown in the media as posh, drinking tea and very snobbish. I'd even go as far as to say we're self depricating in the sense that we don't actively deny it and play on the stereotypes in British made movies.



In scott pilgrim The character Matthew Patel plays on the stereotype of an asian character but in some aspects varys from the generalised view. For example, the fight scene he is in (above) is very reminiscant of a bollywood style movie. I say this because its very over dramatic (although that is the tone of the entire film, this scene is even more so) in the style and that at some points he ennunciates words with the syllables (1:29) and moves his head as well as dancing and singing over bollywood-esque music (3:39). This scen uses a lot of mid shots and long shots as to show the uppet body when the two opponents are talking and when hes dancing there are some long shots as to make sure that the action is in shot. The editing within the movie is a lot of two shots when they are circling each other.