#Flo Fuentas

[pitch-perfect-spookfest]

The Pitch Perfect SpookFest will take place from October 25 - 31.

This year’s prompts will be tied to the word FRIGHTS. Each day people will write a story based on the letter assigned for the day.

October 25 - F

October 26 - R

October 27 - I

October 28 - G

October 29 - H

October 30 - T

October 31 - S

For example, Friday, October 25th is ‘F’ so stories might be based on ‘Frankenstein’ or ‘Forgotten’ or ‘Fright Night’.

Writers are given great latitude to be creative with this.

Good Luck and Happy SpookFest.

[brakerbreaker]

Media Culture & Society: Race and Pitch Perfect

Compose a 100-word analysis of the article, focusing specifically on the ways the author examines the concept of "post-racial." Watch any TV text and provide an example of the ways race is problematically represented. Use a quote from the article to frame your analysis and bring in the Stuart Hall piece as needed.

In the article “Pretending to be ‘Postracial’: The Spectacularization of Race in Reality TV’s Survivor”, writer Emily M. Drew analyzes the way race was used in Survivor: Cook Island. In that season ofSurvivor, contestants are split into “tribes” based on their race and competed against each other first segregated and then desegregated. Of the many problems that emerge from this portrayal of race in a so-called “post-racial” world is the continuation of racial stereotypes. Drew wrote, “This season of Survivordemonstrated the ethnic and generational hierarchies within racialized groups and complex ways in which identity politics and internalized racism operate inside racialized groups, particularly the Latino and Asian American communities, neither of which gets represented as complex, diverse, or dynamic in television depictions” (Drew, 172). This quote reminded me of the way race is portrayed in the Pitch Perfect trilogy. Race is often used as a joke in the Pitch Perfect movies. Kimmy Jin is main character Becca’s (Anna Kendrick) freshman roommate and is Asian American. She has no desire to be friends with Becca, joins an Asian American club, and becomes friends only with other Asian people. Cynthia Rose is the only African American character. She is also lesbian. All the humor around her is lesbian jokes and about her being a triple minority (African American, a woman, and lesbian). Flo Fuentas joined the second movie and as a Latina immigrant from Guatemala all her jokes are about how hard her life was in Guatemala versus how easy things are in the US. The Pitch Perfect series has problematic representations of race but at least they do not pretend that they exist in a post-racial world.

[pitch-perfect-spookfest]

One month until the FRIGHTS come for the Bellas