1. Representation of Nationality in
Captain America

2. America

3. America Then….
What part of America are we presented with here?
Stereotype or not? What does it stand for/ symbolise?

4. What image of America are we given here?

5. The scenes at
The Expo –
what image of
America is
projected? The
voiceover talks
of building a
better future.

6. What does this shot tell us about America?

7. What is
happening to
America in
these scenes?
How might this
make us view
US involvement
in the War?

8. What does this image tell us about America in this
film?

9. America Today
What kind of a place has post-war America turned out to
be? How might this seem to vindicate America’s role in
the War? Is this the only way to respond to this image?

10. Americans

11. What do
these
scenes tell
us about
Americans?

12. And these?

13. Captain America’s name suggest that he epitomises
Americans – what role is he cast in here and what qualities
are linked to him? How are we encouraged to see him?

14. What sort of thing do
Americans do?

15. What is the
American role in
international
conflicts?

16. What role are Americans
being cast in and how are
we meant to respond to
them?

17. America is a multi-ethnic country – what picture does
this create of different ethnicities and nationalities under
America? Realistic or idealistic?

18. What does this shot tell us about Americans?

19. What other ideologies about Americans are set up here?

20. How do these
shots
construct
Americans?

21. What ideologies is this shot creating about America and
Americans?

22. What are the dancing girls doing here and what does it
connote?

23. What do these reactions to the Captain’s show tell us
about Americans?

24. How is the Captain linked to the American eagle
here and what does this symbolise about the
country?

25. Are the images of
America in this film
stereotypical or
alternative ?
Are dominant or
alternative ideologies
created?
Why do you think the
film has adopted this
approach?

26. Great Britain

27. What details tell us we’re in London?

28. And, what here, tells us we can’t be anywhere but
London?

29. Where are these scenes set and what do they suggest
about London at this time?

30. What image of
London are we
given here?

31. What image of London
do we get here? What
tells us we’re in
London?

32. • The image of London we get –
is it stereotypical or
alternative?
• What ideologies about London
does it set up? How realistic
do you feel it is?
• Why do you think the film has
opted for this representation?

33. The Nazis/ Hydra

34. How is Hitler represented
here? How does it make
us see him?

35. Again, how does this
represent Hitler? How does
it position him in regard to
America?

36. These comics are very popular in America – we see
kids and troops reading them. Why do you think the
comics may have wanted to project this view?

37. First impressions of
Schmidt? How does he
come across as a Nazi
officer?

38. What does the blue light filter do to his image? What does it
convey? What does his badge connote? How do these both
condition how we respond to the character?

39. What sort of
qualities does
Schmidt’s lair have?
What does this add
to our impression of
him?

40. What kind of
people are
Schmidt’s men?
What qualities
and roles in the
film are they
linked to?

41. How are Schmidt's Hydra/ Nazi soldiers presented to us?
What reaction do they incite? Consider the next slide too –
do the shots on the second slide remind you of anything?

43. What do you notice about a
lot of the technology Schmidt
uses? What doe this
connote?

44. What does this
tell us about
what Hydra do
to Americans?

45. This is the real Schmidt –
Red Skull. What effect
does the red mask have
on how we react to him?
What do you notice about
the choice of colour and
lighting here?

46. Here we see
Schmidt prepared
to use WMD – who
might this liken
him to?
What elements here
alienate our
sympathies?

47. Our final shot
of Schmidt –
what does this
shot tell us?
What does it
suggest that he
is punished and
annihilated by
the end of the
story?