Hawaii 5-0 And Family Matters

Hawaii 5-0 and Family Matters. At first glance, these two programs seem different, but they hold similar ideologies. Family Matters’s episode “Fight the Good Fight” and Hawaii 5-0’s episode “Honor Thy Father” both work to upend this idea of a black and white history and instead shows that inclusion of new stories into dominant history is important to intervene in common misconceptions, but in support of this ideology, these episodes take different approaches, causing one to think about the best way history can be preserved. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese army bombed Pearl Harbor. Soon after that incident, Japanese Americans were rounded up and placed into Internment camps. These are the lines written in the history books. But the issue

For instance, when Steve and Chin take David to the site of the Honouliuli internment camp in order to jog his memory about the death of his father and his stolen katana, the video of him in the camp is edited with a sepia filter to signal to the audience about his flashback and is transitioned to from the present from the use of a camera pan. The sudden change in scenery and color that occurs after the camera pans around him works to immerse the audience into the world of the internment camp, and this allows him to take the audience on this journey to the internment camp on a more personal level. The audience can see David playing catch with his older brother from an objective medium shot, emphasizing the Americanness and normality of Japanese Americans in the camp. The story’s ideology that there are different histories is supported not only by the inclusion of the Honouliuli Japanese internment camp into this episode, since the inclusion of

In the episode, after Laura realizes that African American history is only covered during Black history month, she tries to petitions the students in the school in order to convince the administrators to create a black history class. However, there are some students that don’t like that proposal and begin to treat her horribly. In one scene, Laura comes back to her locker and reads an angry note trying to persuade her to stop the petition. As Laura slams the door to her lock, the camera cuts to a medium length objective shot that places Laura’s closed locker door in the middle of the shot with the word, Nigger, written in black spray paint across her locker. The framing of this shot works to focus the audience’s attention to the racist treatment that she’s receiving as a result of her actions. The objective shot allows the audience to come up with their own interpretation for that shot, but also works to shock the audience by pointing out how racist that remarks is. In response to the negative backlash, Laura tries to continue fighting for the African American class by plastering posters of important African American inventors and innovators all over the cafeteria. When the student body comes into the cafeteria, the