The law is a hot profession to depict in Hollywood. We can all recall countless movies focused on the legal field. Hollywood has a tendency to exaggerate situations and only cast the most beautiful specimen. However, films do have a tendency to bring to light the issues of a layperson. Films such as Legally Blonde, Erin Brockocich, and The Verdict feature women in the legal field.…
When it comes to people of African-American descent in western films they are portrayed as criminals, workers (or slaves depending in time), created as they do not exist in the west, or just moved up north after the civil war ended. In western films, black people were either placed in the background as working, and some post-civil war films still portrayed black men as slaves. Films such as Sidney Poitier’s 1972 film Buck and the Preacher gave Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee and as well as himself leading roles in the film. Still, the first western film starring a person of African-American descent with the main lead is the 1938 Two-Gun Man from Harlem. Herbert Jeffrey’s character Bob Blake/…
Disney movies are not so G-rated as many assume. Disney movies portray secrets that are hard to catch while watching. There are regulations to pass in order for movies to be G-rated. Somehow Disney producers can get movies to meet the regulations with having all those secrets in the movies. Those secrets hidden in Disney movies have to do with hetero- romantic love and heterosexiness.…
Introduction Films are a powerful medium that bring storytelling to life, and what better story to tell than a love story. Love and romance have been popular genres in media since people began telling stories, and are still an extremely popular genre today. Gender roles within romantic movies are often very obviously segregated. Women are often the helpless submissive character, and men are usually the strong and capable character. There are several examples of this kind of relationship dynamic.…
Traveling back years, even decades into the world of media, finding a film or television show where the portrayals and representations of homosexuals were not seen as the this negative subject or even a leper would have been basically nonexistent, and if there were representations it was only to showcase again negativity of that community but to also showcase this “dominance” that a white heterosexual male was the crucial and pivotal factor when it came to defining how and what mascuailty looked like, while homosxuals were showcased with this perceived notion that those individuals lacked masculinity, were feminine, and were desxualized. However, at first glance it, seems as though time has transformed and evolved when it comes to the representation…
The stereotype that Asian women are the perfect sexual object because of their submissive behavior reinforces traditional gender roles. In Hollywood movies show that Asian women are exotic because their beauty standard is different than America’s beauty. Hollywood thinks that they are doing a great job of showing the audience that they believe in cultural diversity by showing the main male actor in a forbidden relationship with Asian women because “women of color were sometimes treated as exotic sex object” (Omi545). Hollywood does not understand the harm they are doing because of their own interpretation of exotic women.…
Mandy reclaiming her sexuality and using it as a weapon is a complete departure from the horrors of Halloween where one sexual encounter can lead to your demise. From damsel in distress to revenge killing, female characters in slasher films have been able to reclaim what was once deemed improper and use it as a means of survival. The portrayal of women on screen seems to be in a constant transitional period. While woman are starting to be more realistically represented, they are still mostly shown negatively throughout the film until they are forced to save in the day. It does appear that throughout history feminist theory has had an impact on the media of today, most notably in the film industry.…
The cultivation theory will help me find an understanding on the transition of female roles in science fiction films. Films are a big part of the culture here in the United States. Today superheroes are the common films made today but it is slowly starting to shift to science fiction and horror films. Many fans of the superhero movies look up to the heroes in the films and want to be just like them. Depending on the gender the viewer their hero most likely the same.…
The increasing prevalence of LGBT representations in film and television has had positive contributions in challenging the dominance of heteronormativity. Representations through LGBT characters in film and television increases awareness of the LGBT community. These representations may challenge people’s perceptions of things such as masculinity and femininity or homosexuality and heterosexuality. However, not all representations are positive, as they often distort characters into dangerous stereotypes and misrepresent the community entirely. This misrepresentation holds true with bisexual characters.…
Gender Socialization principle is represented at the beginning of the film, which is the social expectation from the attitude of an individual depending of the gender (Heins-Gelder, Chapter 4 , slide 4). In this case, a girl who represents the role of Gracie Hart, Sandra Bullock in her childhood, gets involved in an argument between boys. This is considered as an inappropriate behavior in a girl, and her conduct is rejected by the boys. Her fighting may be seen by some viewers as male behavior. If Grace is performing or involving herself in male problems and fights she is not a normal girl; therefore, people could see her as a "Tomboy."…
The article, ‘Film Bodies: Gender, Genre & Excess’1 by Linda Williams explores whether the forms of sex, violence and emotion found in the genres of pornography, horror, and melodrama (specifically the woman’s weepie) respectively, are as gratuitous as my film scholars and critics believe them to be. Setting out to disprove this idea, Williams’ investigates and compares the form, function, and system of the three genres. Ultimately, William’s central claims reveal the value in the supposed excess of these three genres that benefit a spectator in a variety of ways. Seeking to argue her idea, Williams’ firstly uncovers why elements of these genres are regularly deemed as excessive. This is presented with the contrast of Classic Hollywood and…
Week 7 Assign. 1 Sample Student Research Paper LEE (805-25) In an observation study of male gender identity through films, Mrs. Clara Lee states that, "one must never underestimate the power of film makers in any era to interpret their material with their own contemporary vision" (812). I agree with this statement, as each person can pour their own views/emotions into the portrayal of a character. Humans are affected by their own experiences and environment, so I believe that no vision is the same.…
Women and film, they have being making movies since the beginning of filmmaking and they have always being suppressed by the film industry. Women never really managed to get the space and respect that they deserve with film. From 1896 when the first women made a movie to now 2016, 120 years later not a lot has changed in the industry. They are still not being employed as much as men, nor are they making the same amount of money as men and they are defiantly not getting recognizing by the awards. Men are always getting everything in the film industry, however women have being disrespected and ignored by the industry since they started making movies.…
All over the world, film industries churn out revenge sagas because of the mass appeal of this genre, since the general psychology of human beings is to mete out justice to the wronged and punishment to the wrongdoer. The process is however lost somewhere between the chaotic rules and regulations and loopholes of power that exit in every society. The end result therefore is the individual attempt to avenge the wronged, becoming a court of law in itself. Kahaani presents a similar story.…
The term Bollywood is relatively new title that congregates various types of films that stem from India and sadly get put into one single category, often times the films being underestimated by US pop culture. The film’s subject matter and themes have continued to evolve as does the country of India, and the change is all seen reflecting from the films social and political themes and concerns. When the industry began the films plots spanned from all acros the map, in order to compensate for language differences almost key terms were created which would set the staple for the themes and motives These phrases or words were about lust and love, revenge or justice for wrong doings, good and bad as well as kill. With these themes people all across…