Caroline Hyde's Senior Project

  A powerful moment from this week was during a conversation with Justin Edwards   while watching the Iron Man 3 movie. We were discussing the plot of the film and how certain aspects of the plot reflect realities, situations, or ideas in our world. The antagonist of this film is a white man who weaponizes technology that he stole from a female botanist, and uses it to back his domestic terrorist attacks. These terrorist attacks are portrayed to the public as being done by “The Mandarin.” This man pays an actor to be the face of his attacks, and profits off of xenophobia to spread fear and control the situation.  Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/iron-man-3-villain-mandarin-2012-10 The actor who is the face of The Mandarin is above Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/jqmuja/one_thing_i_would_to_see_in_the_future_of_the_mcu/ Although I wouldn't consider this to have a large emotional impact, during The Avengers film watching the character Mar...

 Hi, this is Caroline Hyde and I am working with Justin Edwards on an investigation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a focus on cultural impact and representation. We chose this project because we were both recently in an English class that focused on the cinematic commentary of African American film throughout American history. As there are four phases of cinema (both movies and tv shows), we are watching one phase a week. The three goals are to 1) Observe how the world at the time (cultural movements) affect the films, 2) Observe how the films affect the world around them, 3) Observe the total change in representation throughout the arc of creation within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Within this first portion of films, Justin and I initially watched them in order of creation- Iron Man 1 and 2. However, after watching these films, we decided to go ahead within the different phases and watch the films that occur before the early 2000s where Iron Man is set. Captain America t...