MOMA Visit

I went to see the exhibit of Making Faces: Images of Exploration and Empowerment in Cinema at the MOMA. The exhibit was really interesting in seeing how Hollywood used to depict minorities such as black people, queer or women. The change to the common housewife to a powerful woman was really interesting to see. It happened in both white and black women. You could see the theme of this in the movies in how they wore pants in the film which, at the time, women were not suppose to wear. Blaxploitation is also a very interesting concept, they were playing the othello movie which had someone using black face make up. I could not believe that no one thought how offensive that could be, or that they did not even care about it. I would like to believe that times have changed, and they have, but not as much as I would have liked to believe. Whitewashing is still very apparent in today's films , a very recent example of this is Scarlett Johansson playing the protagonist in Ghost in a Shell. She was cast as the main character in a movie that takes place in Japan, as is the comic book. It received a lot of criticism because it did not make much sense, a caucasian woman play an asian woman. I know that the world of film and media has changed drastically with the world around it, media tends to illustrate the truths of the world around it but that also means that today's media reveals a lot about how where people stand on the topics  about minorities and diversity.