1) The title of this documentary is Miss Representation. What is the significance of the title? In other words, what argument about women in the media is the documentary making? Identify and then discuss five pieces of "evidence" that are presented in the documentary to support the argument. The title Miss Representation is significant because the documentary focuses on how women are portrayed in the media and society. The irony in the title is that how the media portrays women as these weak, sexual beings, is a misrepresentation. The documentary also talks about how difficult it is for young girls to live up to societies expectation of them as well as how men’s expectation for women rise.
2) The documentary presents an overview of the history …show more content…
Briefly describe the characteristics of women's film roles in each of these periods and discuss reasons for any differences you observe.
In the documentary, it stated how women’s roles in the 1920’s to 1940’s was very flexible where the same women could be the mother then turn around and be the seductress or the saint. Women’s roles and characters back in the 1920’s to 1940’s were much more easy going. In today’s films, women’s characters are seen as sexual beings who are labeled as
“bitchy” when they voice their opinion or “sluts’ who will do anything for the attention for men.
Women are also portrayed as “body props” to grab the attention of male viewers. There are very few films in current media who have a women protagonist who is strong and capable of doing the same things as men. The idea that women cannot do the same jobs men can or cannot be as successful as men are learned behaviors that society and the media paint. Even in G-rated movies, such as Little Mermaid or Peter Pan, the female characters are wearing much more reveling clothes then the males.
The majority of modern day characters in films are usually between the age 20-30 which only makes up about 39% of the nation’s population. I believe there is such a difference …show more content…
Although women’s roles in films have somewhat changed, women are still asked to do things with their bodies or face such as Botox or false teeth.
3) Often, when a great deal of progress is made by women in our society, there is a "backlash" against that progress. Discuss the ways in which this documentary addresses, first, the progress that was made in the 1960s and 1970s in the US, and then, the forms in which this backlash took in the media (in the 1980s and 1990s).
One way the documentary addresses a backlash against a progress is by speaking about female journalists. Although Katie Couric was a very successful news anchor and journalist, the media was always worried more about her looks and her personal life then how she did her job.
Women in similar jobs are often pitted against each other as if they do not like one another, but
when men hold similar jobs, they are rarely pitted against each other and seen as “best buds.”
Women on television are, in a way, forced to look good because if they do not, they are penalized and often talked about in a negative
2) The documentary presents an overview of the history …show more content…
Briefly describe the characteristics of women's film roles in each of these periods and discuss reasons for any differences you observe.
In the documentary, it stated how women’s roles in the 1920’s to 1940’s was very flexible where the same women could be the mother then turn around and be the seductress or the saint. Women’s roles and characters back in the 1920’s to 1940’s were much more easy going. In today’s films, women’s characters are seen as sexual beings who are labeled as
“bitchy” when they voice their opinion or “sluts’ who will do anything for the attention for men.
Women are also portrayed as “body props” to grab the attention of male viewers. There are very few films in current media who have a women protagonist who is strong and capable of doing the same things as men. The idea that women cannot do the same jobs men can or cannot be as successful as men are learned behaviors that society and the media paint. Even in G-rated movies, such as Little Mermaid or Peter Pan, the female characters are wearing much more reveling clothes then the males.
The majority of modern day characters in films are usually between the age 20-30 which only makes up about 39% of the nation’s population. I believe there is such a difference …show more content…
Although women’s roles in films have somewhat changed, women are still asked to do things with their bodies or face such as Botox or false teeth.
3) Often, when a great deal of progress is made by women in our society, there is a "backlash" against that progress. Discuss the ways in which this documentary addresses, first, the progress that was made in the 1960s and 1970s in the US, and then, the forms in which this backlash took in the media (in the 1980s and 1990s).
One way the documentary addresses a backlash against a progress is by speaking about female journalists. Although Katie Couric was a very successful news anchor and journalist, the media was always worried more about her looks and her personal life then how she did her job.
Women in similar jobs are often pitted against each other as if they do not like one another, but
when men hold similar jobs, they are rarely pitted against each other and seen as “best buds.”
Women on television are, in a way, forced to look good because if they do not, they are penalized and often talked about in a negative