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In this article, Noël ascertains that feminism is the most distinct movement in film criticism. By using psychoanalysis, he criticizes the essay written by Laura Mulvey (1989) “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. The purpose of the paper is to defend the images women are portrayed in film approach, which is similar to the idea of Murphy (2015) that women are underrepresented in nowadays film. According to Noël, Mulvey believes that the Hollywood cinema succeeds because of the manipulation of the audience’s visual pleasure, which reflects the patriarchal culture. To seek a theoretical framework that will enable …show more content…
He, therefore, believes that women representations have economic, political, sexual and symbolical oppression. Furthermore, Reema Dutt, using the statistics published by the University of Southern California (2010) as the evidence, highlights that female in Hollywood movies is subjugated to unattainable heights of beauty, brains, physicality and behavior, among other things. Moreover, she explores the idea that filmic images not only tremendously influence our lives, but also subtly create the ideology that representations reflect the interests of power. The article is based on detailed researches, and sufficient examples are used, including abundance data on what the principal roles men and women played in most Hollywood movies and the difference between the two gender. Reema uses semiology and mythology as her methodology to elaborate on how contemporary Hollywood movies describe and portray women and what myths these representations can promote through 3 films: The Avenger, Harry Potter and Deathly Hallow Part 2 and Toy Story 3. From each film, 2 cross-sectional scenes are picked out. Each scene contained the analysis of 3 images from it. The purpose of conducting the research is to excavate whether women in Hollywood movies are …show more content…
She analyzes the reason why the female is underrepresented in movies by using the concept of social cognitive theory and cultivation theory. According to Murphy, the social cognitive theory proposes that the expectation of people for real-world situations will develop from observational learning while consuming media. On the other hand, cultivation theory suggests that how the audience identifies the long-term message will be influenced by the exposure time of specific cultural messages. She indicates that even though women represent supporting roles, in the recent decade, female are less objectified sexually and are regarded more as the symbol of exceptional, strength and independent. Examples of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games series and Tries in Divergent series who impress the audience that female and male are equal are used to evidence her claim. However, according to Murphy, the female is still on behalf of sexuality and have less power in various films. The article is well-researched and comprehensive. The primary methodology Jocelyn uses is qualitative research. She chooses 15 top grossing movies over a 20-year span, from 1993 to 2013, as her research materials to examine whether female play significant and leading characters or are underrepresented or misrepresented in the majority of films. She not only provides
In this article, Noël ascertains that feminism is the most distinct movement in film criticism. By using psychoanalysis, he criticizes the essay written by Laura Mulvey (1989) “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. The purpose of the paper is to defend the images women are portrayed in film approach, which is similar to the idea of Murphy (2015) that women are underrepresented in nowadays film. According to Noël, Mulvey believes that the Hollywood cinema succeeds because of the manipulation of the audience’s visual pleasure, which reflects the patriarchal culture. To seek a theoretical framework that will enable …show more content…
He, therefore, believes that women representations have economic, political, sexual and symbolical oppression. Furthermore, Reema Dutt, using the statistics published by the University of Southern California (2010) as the evidence, highlights that female in Hollywood movies is subjugated to unattainable heights of beauty, brains, physicality and behavior, among other things. Moreover, she explores the idea that filmic images not only tremendously influence our lives, but also subtly create the ideology that representations reflect the interests of power. The article is based on detailed researches, and sufficient examples are used, including abundance data on what the principal roles men and women played in most Hollywood movies and the difference between the two gender. Reema uses semiology and mythology as her methodology to elaborate on how contemporary Hollywood movies describe and portray women and what myths these representations can promote through 3 films: The Avenger, Harry Potter and Deathly Hallow Part 2 and Toy Story 3. From each film, 2 cross-sectional scenes are picked out. Each scene contained the analysis of 3 images from it. The purpose of conducting the research is to excavate whether women in Hollywood movies are …show more content…
She analyzes the reason why the female is underrepresented in movies by using the concept of social cognitive theory and cultivation theory. According to Murphy, the social cognitive theory proposes that the expectation of people for real-world situations will develop from observational learning while consuming media. On the other hand, cultivation theory suggests that how the audience identifies the long-term message will be influenced by the exposure time of specific cultural messages. She indicates that even though women represent supporting roles, in the recent decade, female are less objectified sexually and are regarded more as the symbol of exceptional, strength and independent. Examples of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games series and Tries in Divergent series who impress the audience that female and male are equal are used to evidence her claim. However, according to Murphy, the female is still on behalf of sexuality and have less power in various films. The article is well-researched and comprehensive. The primary methodology Jocelyn uses is qualitative research. She chooses 15 top grossing movies over a 20-year span, from 1993 to 2013, as her research materials to examine whether female play significant and leading characters or are underrepresented or misrepresented in the majority of films. She not only provides