Secret Superstar Character Analysis

In the acting community, there are many actors and actresses. Most are very well known for a copious amount of reasons. However, two very renowned thespians are both alike and different. These two are Robin Williams and Marilyn Monroe. While both people affected the general public and some diehard fans with their incredible films and TV shows, they did have personal lives including marriages and divorces.

Just a decade ago, reality television programmes were considered a fad. Today, they have exploded into a phenomenon that takes over primetime television all over the world. Since the beginning, reality television is known for the bad reputation and it’s criticisms. Many condemn it for being cheap, sensationalised and promoting immoral values and lifestyles. However, these criticisms over-generalise the entire genre of television based on a small number of lousy shows.

From past to the present, Shakespeare 's works have been translated into many languages and been an inspiration for many. In Hamlet gender inequality is a predominant issue as the two leading females are characterized as weak and are used as tools of manipulation by the male figures. This differs in the movie titled “The Banquet", a loose adaption of William Shakespeare 's tragedy Hamlet set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in 10th century China. Film director, Feng Xiaogang puts bigger emphasis on the role of the women and gives them more power than Shakespeare in his play. To begin with Gertrude: the very first piece of information we get about her is that she has married her brother-in-law after the sudden death of her husband.

There exists a very real relationship between the Female Gothic novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century and the social context of women at that time. This new class of fiction is essentially treated by women as it addresses women’s experiences offered an opportunity to address “the hidden, unspeakable reality of women’s lives: not just their lives in the private inner world of the psyche, but also their social and economic lives in a real world of patriarchal institutions” (DeLamotte 165). Notwithstanding the success of male Gothicists, Gothic fiction is perceived as a female-dominated genre as Leonard Wolf writes: Despite the triumphs of Lewis and Maturin, the Gothic novel was something of a cottage industry of middle-class

Rise of the Strong Female Protagonists - Representation of Women in Contemporary American Cinema" Cinema has always been an integral part of a culture and has been presenting various ideals of the time such as gender roles. American Cinema has been abundant of gender representation and through many years the roles of men and women have been presented according to the formulaic stereotypes. For a long time up to the present, men have dominated the movie industry and have been depicted as saviours and protectors while women have often been presented as the weaker sex, objects of desire or just as the support of male characters. Even though it is not difficult to enumerate a few movies such as Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Guardians of

The Femme Fatale has been in society, whether from imagination or from women who were seen as taboo or different from the norm. Where did this title come from, and has it always been around? I will be examining what the femme fatale is, and why the title has stayed with us throughout the years. I will also be analyzing as to why the femme fatale’s brother, the homme fatale has not been as widely known as the former.

248). Furthermore, by using the various methodologies and perspectives contained under the umbrella of feminist film theory, feminist film critics illustrate the distinct relationship between feminist film theory and criticism. As in film theory the concept of “counter cinema” (cite) was taken up by feminist film critics, however that was not their only approach. The developments in feminist film criticism, recent and not so, point to the investigation of the effects race, ethnicity, class, and sexual preference and the differences between women have on the progress of film. And it is exactly this distinct relationship between feminist film theory and criticism that creates a sense of urgency for a positive future of feminist film criticism; one that will focus, more rigorously, on exploring the global perspectives in “film and media in various locations and across class, racial, and ethnic groups throughout the world" (McHugh & Shobchak, p. ).

I think few people would disagree that Hitchcock was the expert of suspense, his films have generated a lot of critical acclaim over time. However, the women in his films rarely come across well, most of the time his female protagonist are scheming, deceitful and manipulative. Hitchcock’s filmic narrative is rampant with misogyny, his female leads are always punished or killed off, to show spectators that his women always end up getting “what they deserve.” In order to answer the question “Is Kim Novak’s portrayal of Madeline/ Judy in Alfred Hitchcock’s (1958) ‘Vertigo’ one of a Damsel in Distress or Manipulative Feme Fatale?”, I have researched and read a lot of books and papers to broaden my knowledge and address the question.

Women make up nearly half of the world’s population and they are a significant group of individuals in society. However, they are constantly mistreated by those around them and continue to experience an endless cycle of abuse. Women often fall victim of abuse in the hands of those who perceive them to be insignificant and worthless. The perpetuating cycle of violence that exists only allows more and more women to be susceptible to experiencing any form of abuse. This concept has made its way into cultural and societal norms where the idea of abuse being normal is embedded into the minds of those who abide by traditional ways.

However our female counterparts now occupy virtually every aspect of the film industry that males do; and in many instances excel past us. Quite clearly this change has taken place behind the lens, but has it taken place in front of it? I purpose that it has, but not through lack of trying! Women were indeed at one stage purely, or for the most part to put it rather crudely, objects to ogle at on screen, ‘objects of the look’. Their place as a real world character with depth and conviction came only secondary to their physical appearance or attributes and ability to woe male spectators.

“Untitled Film Still #35” is created by Cindy Sherman in 1979. We can see that there is a woman standing in the picture, and the background is consisting of black and white colors. The woman seems cold and mad. Most of the pictures in this series give the viewers an impression of popular film genres, like film stills. Sherman used the photography to express her idea, and she liked to convey female’s beauty for enjoying men’s gazing, which is a primary concentration of contemporary feminist theory, which consider gender as a socially constructed concept.

Rachel McAddams, 36, is a really good actress, but a lot of actors and actresses have been taken bad movies. She is no different. McAdams has appeared in some good movies, and some bad. The good would have to be “Mean Girls”, “Southpaw”, “Sherlock Holmes”, and “Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows”, “Midnight in Paris”, “Wedding Crashers”, and her appearance on the HBO smash hit, “True Detective” for it 's second season, and it was one that got her a lot of acclaim especially since this is a very serious show compared to all the romantic comedy movies that she was in that got her a lot of attention.

This specific, Thinking About Movies by Peter Lehman and William Luhr was very relatable to me. Many of the points that they talked about, in the article I had previously wondered about. To start off, they talk about in how many Hollywood films they have an Invisible class norm. This invisible norm is that the middle class is the class most people relate too, and want to be in. Although this is true for most people it is not true for all people.

Huxley warned us about many things without even knowing so. He predicted a lot of things in our society. We may not be exactly like their society yet, or to the extent they are at with many thing such as the use of drugs, but we are close and will continue to become closer throughout the years to

Introduction Or Nah by Ty Dolla $ign is a very popular song with more than 169 million views on YouTube ("Ty Dolla $ign - Or Nah ft. The Weeknd, Wiz Khalifa & DJ Mustard [Music Video]"). The song is highly focused on women and most importantly making females out to be objects present only for the pleasure of the artist. Within the context of this song, and songs like it, women, who are typically the subject of the song, are pressured into sexual situations that might be objectionable or uncomfortable.