One of the films i've studied in this topic is La Haine, a french film following the life of three youths living in the 'projects' of paris, called La Banlieu's, a low social class area made to attract people from the colonies of France, this cultural policy was called 'assimilation'.
In La Haine, a film technique of cinematography and framing throughout the film allows to quickly show conflict, such as separating characters from others dividing characters using mise-en-scene. An example of this is after Vinz shows the gun to Hubert and Said, and the camera purposely separates Hubert from the other two to show us that he's not happy with Vinz carrying a gun, and that he disagrees it.
Whilst the media portray the people living in La Banlieu's as being in gangs and stereotypically accepting of guns and violence, this shows that the stereotypes are not always correct, as Hubert is clearly against the idea of violence and Vinz having a weapon.
In another case, the camera can frame two characters directly opposite each other to represent opposition and disagreement, rather then separating them from the group, an example of this is when Vinz states that he would enjoy going to prison and getting "banged up", which from the framing we can distinctively tell that Hubert disagrees with him and thinks that he's being silly.
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