Music Video lesson 3

 Music video lesson 3













These 2 images represent the issues of Hurricane Katrina and the catastrophic floods in new Orleans. This is done by representing the floods and drawing attention to them also from the effect that they had on the houses an nearby infrastructure. It gains awareness on the damage.



Gilroy - Representation - . Postcolonial theory. Understand the world based on Western/British news. Civilisation bases racial hierarchies and binary opposites based on notions of otherness - some races seen as better than other and not in good way

Explores issues to race and identity, what it means to be black and America














Historical references to slavery 











Hurricane Katrina

Binary Opposites although Beyonce is consistently represented as dominant, successful and powerful









https://genius.com/Beyonce-formation-lyrics 
Racial hierarchies in the music video based on otherness and racial stereotypes
  • Working class girls in New Orleans
  • Basketball bamas - working class black men
  • M.L.K I Have a dream
  • Police vs Black people
  • Stop Shooting Us graffiti
  • Yet beyonce is also known to have a higher status/being better than others
video challenges racial hierarchy 

How audiences thought of the song

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