The character that I critically analyzed is Troy Bolton, from the High School Musical franchise. Troy is portrayed as the high school hunk, as he is the captain of the basketball team, a heartthrob that the girls admire and want to be with, and an idol to the other boys who strive to be as cool as him. Not only is Troy represented as a teenage jock, but he also has a passion for performing in musicals, which contrasts and contradicts many of the theories we have studied in this course. Troy’s character can be effectively analyzed using Pierre Bourdieu’s Cultural Deprivation Theory, and Becky Francis’ Gender Gap Theory.
Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural deprivation theory explains how the way individuals are raised, and the values learned from your family, shapes your taste as you age.…