Secret Superstar Character Analysis

Each of these concepts are utilized at the advantage of men, and the disadvantage of women, and has shown to provide detrimental consequences and results for women in society. However, in this film, and other films by Tyler Perry, appear to take the added step to combat these aspects that are present in the media’s portrayal of women. While these are present in the movie, he often makes a point to combat it with an inverse portrayal of each

Cultural theories by Kathleen Rowe, Laura Mulvey and Stuart Hall can help the audience seek an explanation to how these stereotypical gender roles are portrayed in the movie and how it can create power for the specific

The media has long been recognized as important source of gender related information, television and cinema specifically influences its audience in a considerable way. (Denmark and Paludi 2008). With regards to the concept of gender cinema can offer a space where ambiguities of identities are played out; understanding the play of the categories of femininity and masculinity is very important in evaluating our own understandings of gender and how we react to different representations of it (Tasker 2002).If a film can show different individuals and we can recognize how social forces shape and constrain the individual according to classifications of gender it narrates an experience where we experience the film as gendered viewers. Film reflects and generates out own experience of gender over and above out own recognition and observation of it. (Pomerance 2001).

Richard Dyer, a film scholar, points out that “your ideas about who you are don’t just come from inside you; they come from the culture. And in this culture they come especially from the movies. We learn from the movies what it means to be a man or woman” (3). Movies and media, such as newspapers, magazines and television, instruct women that in order to express femininity one

The comedy and satire in these movies provide entertainment, but is also the only means of slipping a taboo subject underneath the door and into our minds, ultimately guiding us to a meaningful, thoughtful

Lippi-Green utilizes empirical evidence to demonstrate gender inequality portrayals in these films: of the 371 characters analyzed, only just over 30% were female. When female characters were involved in a storyline they were portrayed as mothers or princesses who rarely leave the confines of their homes. If they had a job Lippi-Green reports females were depicted as “waitresses, nurses, nannies or housekeepers. Men…are doctors, waiters, advisors to kings, thieves…detectives and pilots” (118). Lippi-Green argues this forms associations about gender roles in children’s minds.

In contrast to the twentieth century we still see some of this in our current day and ages. Contrasting portrayals of men and women in films leave us with the fact that we haven’t changed. Men and women are sought to have different gender roles within

The film, based upon dialogue, use of imagery between the lead characters, and just the overall plot structure, suggests that the roles of the characters offer new possibilities. Like other films in Hollywood over the years, rather than exploit women and use the heavy appeal of sex, the film uses a contrasting mirage of a healthy and intimate relationship based on equality; the woman is not depicted less than her worth, rather as an individual achieving parity through her intelligence, creativity, and economic independence. In the process of creating this relationship, however, the film mythologizes the roles of men and

Introduction The film shows a story of eight women who stood up against discrimination against gender. They were angered by the way they were treated in their workplace. This article will cover the similarity of the film and what we learnt. We will relate the present day society, beliefs, sexism and how it prevails.

Ideology The movie that I have chosen to analyze is the 2004 film Crash. This film emphasizes the intertwining cultures of today 's society and the conflicts faced from class, culture, stereotypes and racism. The explicit content of this film is to teach the audience that one person 's choices has an impact on another person or multiple people and to persuade the audience that we as a society need to change how we treat each other. The films overt message does generate social dialogue, however, this film can be interpreted by the audience through their own beliefs and behaviors causing some misinterpretation.

Through movies’ ability to stay grounded in some truths, yet also push social boundaries, it is clear that films shape culture, and culture shapes film, making more important now than ever that filmmakers are aware of what they are putting out and the implications they will have. Not every movie producer

The female characters in films ‘reflect and perpetuate the status and options of women in today 's society ' and play an active part in creating female role models (Kord,

This essay will critically examine on how the female figure is represented throughout a very “selective” media outlet (the film industry), and how society is depicted in the film medium. The chosen media text for analysis is The Hunger Games, a theatrical adaptation of the novel written by Suzanne Collins and directed by Gary Ross. The film is centred on Katniss Everdeen - a teenage girl who volunteers on behalf of her sister, to fight in the annual Hunger Games- and the male District 12 tribute, Peeta Mellark, with whom she shares quite an intense past. Both characters embark on a journey that will test their physical and emotional boundaries, while being hunted by the other 22 competitors who all fight for the same objective: survival.

Ridley Scott’s ‘female buddy movie’ Thelma and Louise centres around issues of male dominance and the freedom of release from society. Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) are women suppressed by the men in their lives. They take a vacation to escape for a few days and after an attempted rape and murder they end up fugitives on the run for their lives. This unintended event ends up being for them the best adventure of their lives, as they are able to divest from the rules of society and become the independent women they are. By subverting the traditional role of gender in the genre, the film shows how feminism impacted the film industry by challenging Hollywood and the gendered myths and social patriarchy, providing women with a voice, and changing how spectators view how women are looked at through women’s eyes and their experiences.

Throughout the years femininity in Hollywood cinema has changed quite drastically. The industry has gone through several phases that changed how femininity was viewed. This paper will address the postfeminist phase in Hollywood, while focusing on the film Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001). It will show how postfeminism is viewed in cinema as well as the characteristics that make a film considered to be postfeminist. Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) showcases all the characteristics needed in a postfeminist film which makes the film a great representative of postfeminist attitudes in media.