Film Analysis: Real Women Have Curves

The movie “Real Women Have Curves” tells the story of Ana Garcia, a high school graduate on her way to pursuit the American dream. Ana lives in barrio in Eastern Los Angeles, she is a brilliant student whom teacher really admire. Although she wants to go to college, her family, especially her mother, Carmen, tells her not to. In her mother’s eyes, Ana is a spoiled child who only thinks of herself. As the movie rolls along, the conflict between Ana and Carmen grows larger and Carmen turns into Ana’s biggest obstacle in achieving her American dream.

power structure of American democratic ideologies juxtaposing liberty with slavery. Clotel is seemingly happy with the events of her life. She is living in a secluded cottage with Horatio and their daughter Mary, but like Jefferson, he wants a life in politics, which blacks are excluded from. Without a legal obligation in the form of a marriage contract, Clotel’s inherited white blood proves meaningless when Horatio takes Gertrude a legitimate, pure white wife to further his political career. Like Currer, she is “sold down the river” and her connection to the President, societal advantages, virtue, nor beauty can negate the invisible black blood that runs in her veins.

There is a stereotype in the film that women are always seen as objects and usually pursued by men in the film. Through the concept of resistance, this film goes against that stereotype by having Julia be presented as a subject instead of focusing on men pursuing her, the main focus is on her pursuing a man. She is no longer the object but rather a subject, which is something a goal of Women 's Cinema. Additionally, there is another stereotype in films where men are "in charge" of women and the women usually are submissive. In this film, Julia is in charge of herself.

Body! Me, You, Them. Does media have an influence on body image? Millions of people, men and women all around the world have a secret obsession. The general population suffers from trying to impress other people and themselves with body image.

Fifty Shades of Grey written by E.L. James is an erotic romance story between timid college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and handsome entrepreneur, Christian Grey. The two meet during an uptight interview with the CEO of Grey Enterprises where Christian starts to make Anastasia feel intimidated by his intelligence and appearance. Later, the two characters seem to find themselves spending more and more time together and begin developing a strange connection that Ana cannot quite put her finger on. Christian is the type of man that desires no relationship labels besides dominant and submissive, leading to a taboo love affair between Ana and Christian. Anastasia gets wrapped up in the excitement and forgets to mention that she is still pure when it comes to being with a man, but Grey quickly changes that.

With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, many aspects started to change. Even though the majority of the British population lived far from the battlefields, and usually never heard a gun shot, the home front was still part of the war. Their lives were changed in all senses. People lost their jobs due to economical problems, as the companies wanted to diminish their cost and production as there were no demand due to the war. They were losing family members and the majority of the population did not have experience in this type of situation.

Jennifer’s Body, to some people, can be looked at as a joke or as a film that slightly changed the horror genre with its different way of story telling . This film took certain tropes and flipped them in order to make the audience think differently about how women are portrayed in horror films. It is very common in horror films to see a woman as a damsel in distress or as the final girl that somehow survives the mass killing. However, there are classic tropes that are inserted in this film like the pretty girl has a best friend that is less pretty than her. Their friendship is put to the test when something strange happens to Jennifer because her sexuality was questioned and she becomes a hot demonic creature.

The movie ‘Fifty Shade of Grey’ opened february 2015 on the Valantine’s day, and more than $300 million worth of tickets were sold world wide. That is more than seven times the amount it cost to make the film. . Fifty Shades of Grey tells the story of Ana, a literature student, who offered help to her roomate when she was sick and went instead of her to Christian, a successful business man to make an interview with him. The story starts from here they both loved each other and started a sexual relationship that becomes increasingly abusive. Firstly this movie was even not allowed to be premiered in the arab states due to ethical provisions, but when the film version of the novel was premiered in theaters allover the world, it has caused debate

According to Cash & Pruzinsky’s (2002) study, the body image refers to how individuals think, feel, and behave with respect to their physical attributes of weight, body shape, size, and appearance. Thus, in this study, key themes such as confidence level, behaviour, and personal thoughts were highlighted. Giving the answer to RQ3 which asks how satisfied or dissatisfied are gym goers towards their body image, from the field observation results, the “fit” male participants were overflowing with confidence as they wore as little clothing as possible to show off their muscles, especially those who had no problem at all walking around shirtless. They were clearly satisfied and more comfortable than ever in their own skin. They are also well aware that their bodies

When we’re young, we don’t understand much of what is going on around us, if we see something we like, we want it, or we would want to look like it. For someone who has grown up obsessed over Disney Animation movies, it’s very easy to say I have been a victim of their unrealistic body changes. Ariel for example, I thought being a mermaid is the most outstanding thing in the world, however, she changes herself, she traded what was her identity, for a pair of feet, and for who? For a man. I grew up thinking for a man to like me, he doesn’t have to accept me for who I am, I have to change myself to fit into his definition of how my body should look or how I should act.