Media Representation Theory Pack One: Representation/Hall

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (2019)

The filmmakers use appropriated representations when they mix the noise of a home. On the one hand, his mother's Puerto Rican heritage is loud and speaks Spanglish. At the same time, his father is quieter, but neither is ashamed of what others say or do; instead, they care about what happens to their son. At the same time, given his Black heritage, Miles room is very colorful and has a playlist that varies from pop to Latin music to rap, showing his combination that is quite faithful to his origins. When it comes to Counter typical representation this is shown by the tendency of his graffiti style on stickers, the fact of sticking and putting them, everywhere that usually can be considered that this group of people "young black" when they do this it is considered vandalism but here they show it as a way to express art and spread positive messages, as well as when he feels out of place in the academy because he does not want to be pitied and treated differently because he is not high-class and this is rectified when he says "I'm here because I won that stupid lottery" and his facial expression he really wants to be with his people his fellows, the people who understand him, speaks and thinks like him apparently direct him to adapt certain behaviors, and that's what he likes and he is happy,  but his parents do not like that because they think is a bad influence  and that is why they decided that he should join the academy to avoid being like his uncle and this is where the deconstructed representations come in, that surely his father and uncle grew up in a school like this, more like a low-class neighborhood and school and that is why That his uncle doesn't live in a very nice place, but with very loud music, and his father doesn't want him to end up like that, while his father worked hard and is now a police officer and doesn't want Miles to get lost because  (this also counts as typical counter). Because of this backstory between his father and his uncle, Miles's path is being very "controlled."

All of this is meant to support the central idea of ​​this extract, which is that the future of Black-Hispanic youth is stereotyped as if they grow up in a school that isn't high status, their path will be lost and they will end up being criminals, wasting their potential; and this will explain the personal battle that Miles have to take a decision in which path he will go, and if that will meet the "Great Expectations" not only of his parents at this point, but rather  his own  life expectations.