Representation in Art/Entertainment/Media • Page 31

These Tone-Deaf Reviews of Moonlight and Hidden Figures Are Why We Need Critics of Color

 

Model Ebonee Davis on Why Inclusion "Doesn't Just Mean One Token Black Model"

 

Female film protagonists reached all-time high in 2016, study shows

 

Dear Hollywood: stop portraying Muslims as terrorists

 

Only One Broadcast Drama Pilot Will Employ a Female Director This Year

 

I'm an Arab actor who's been asked to play a terrorist 30 times. If La La Lands cleans up at the Oscars, I'm done

"When I expressed my frustrations to a prominent casting director, she encouraged me to “use my ethnicity as a playing card”, reassuring me that “white actors are f***ed in this day and age.” It’s incredible how many times I’ve been told to see racial profiling as a positive thing."

 

Unbelievable

edit: ugh I read the comments and they're all terrible. AVOID.

 

Why did you even check the comments out? With very rare exceptions, they're always a disgusting wasteland. People suck.

 

It was a mistake but once I read one I had to read more. I'm a masochist.

 

On the topic of terrible comments, one of my roomies showed me some pretty awful ones about Get Out yesterday. One that really stood out:

 

It's true there's no movies with POC bad guys

My eyes roll out of my head

 

I would gladly play a villain that is violent specifically towards white people.

Hand me the role, I got this.

 

I'm willing to even go as far as method acting to really get the character down.

 

The next great revenge flick

 

I wanna mention my ardent defense of Ubisoft for representation:

Watch_Dogs 2 - 2016 (POC lead, WOC support, trans* support)
The Division - 2016 (WOC lead, female LGBT+ support)
AC Syndicate - 2015 (female and bi male leads, POC support, trans* support)
For Honor - 2017 and Ghost Recon Wildlands - 2017 are really great with female armor, no sexual/objectifying bullshit like you see in a lot of MMOs.

I mean, they did all this before (Prince of Persia and Beyond Good and Evil, both over a decade old) but people have been giving them a lot of shit in comparison to so many other AAA companies that do little to nothing, or have a lot of stereotypes when they DO have rep.

(And no, I'm not defending the AC unity debacle. Enough)

http://kotaku.com/for-honor-gets-female-armor-right-1792589476
Why Evie Frye Makes Me Love Assassin's Creed Again
https://www.amalanetwork.com/2016/11/20/the-game-you-didnt-know-you-wanted-watch_dogs-2/

 

Penny Arcade has had loads of problematic things to say in the past, but it looks like something just clicked with representation in media for them.

I’m a complete mess, but she’s gonna be okay. It seems like a little thing, but I saw it happen the moment she saw a self that she recognized in a work of art.

source

 

World exclusive: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ set to make Disney history with gay character

 

this will always make me happy as it reminds me of how i felt when i was her age too.

 

Jessica Chastain refuses to stay quiet on gender inequality issues

 

Ryan Murphy Remembers a Homophobic Meeting With a WB Executive