Filmography

Filmography This essay will compare race, gender and relationship views from two different decades, the 80’s and 90’s, as seen in typical American college settings. The first movie, Higher Learning, looks at romance, drama and social relationships in a multi-cultural university in the mid 90’s. The second movie, School Daze, deals with college life at an all black university in the late 80’s. We will compare how issues of race, class, and gender are dealt with in a racially diverse university in contrast to the predominately black university. We will analyze how sexist, racist and violent attitudes need to be addressed on American college campuses before real learning can take place. Higher Learning, starring Omar Epps, was produced by John Singleton and released in 1996. Throughout the movie the Singleton looks primarily at the college life of three individuals. The first, Malik (played by Epps), is a young black male from the inner city who made his way to college on an athletic scholarship for his outstanding abilities in track and field. The second character is Christine, played by Kristy Swanson, a young white female from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Finally, Remi played scene, white, black, university, college, school, race, malik, learning, singleton, main, issues, higher, dap, class, two, men, male, blacks, american, young, social, movie, gamma, film, female, characters, both, being, students, skinned, remi, place, over, one