Representation in City of God

Youth and Youth Culture in City of God from Naamah Hill
 

Representation of Gender in City of God from Naamah Hill
 

Representation of Drugs and Drug Culture from Naamah Hill

 

Representation in City of God - Place from Naamah Hill

 

City of god Ethnicity from Naamah Hill

Conflict in City of God

Conflict in City of God from Naamah Hill

Unsupervised work for the week beginning 10 Oct

Central Theme - Poverty

You need to explore how the film deals with the theme of poverty.

1. Start by reading the page in your booklet that looks like this:

At the bottom of the page are four questions that I would like you to answer.

2. Download the word document below.  It has a series of statements about the theme of poverty and how is is portrayed/ represented in the film.  Under each statement you need to develop the statement by referencing to specific scenes, moment etc.  I have done the first one for you to give you an example. You can print the document and write in the boxes by hand or do it on the computer.

Poverty in City of God - Worksheet from Naamah Hill

Representation in City of God

As well as understanding the central themes we need to talk about the issues of representation.

There are five key areas that we will need to look at:

• Gender
• Drug Culture
• Youth Culture
• Place 
• Ethnicity

In order to have a good understanding of these areas I would like you to choose one of them (not gender - see below) and prepare a presentation.  Base your presentation around four key questions:

1. How is/are ______ represented?
2. What would be good scenes to talking about ______? Why?
3. What might be challenging about  _______?
4. What messages might the audience take from this film about ___?

I have already done one on Gender to give you an idea:

City of god gender from Naamah Hill

If you do a bit of a google search you will probably find powerpoint done by students in past years.  You can use these as a base for your own work but don't just copy them..... You will present your powerpoint to me on Friday!

Power in City of God

Remember that you need to write at least 500 words about the theme of power and refer to specific scenes and minor elements

05.City of God and the Theme of Power from Naamah Hill

Excellent Resources for City of God

City of God Booklet from South Sefton College

Chapter from a book all abut Brazil on film - starts on page 101
20 Things You didn't know about City of God
Character Study of Lil Ze
City of God 10 Years on
Poverty and Crime in City of God