There is hope for a better reality of Americans when the few come together as a group, exposing themselves and others, and the documentaries Tough Guise 2 and Miss Representation speak to men and women and how they can change their bad gender image sold to them by the media. Tough Guise 2 observes men bred by the media to be leaders in America’s violent crimes. Miss Representation observes the role the entertainment industry plays in defining gender roles, but takes a closer look at what women can do to fight gender inequality in political spectrums where their positive example is lacking in areas where males predominate, and therefore attempts to do something about gender representation. Without diverse input from men outside the realm of the most famous, both documentaries miss an opportunity to reach an audience of men that could use their power to stand up against the plight of gender misrepresentation in the media.…
Newson’s Argument Claim: In the film, “Miss Representation,” film producer, Jennifer Siebel Newson claims that women in today society are being miss represented by social media because women are expected to live up to social media expectation such as women need to be beautiful, sexy, and skinny in order to be successful. Reasoning: Social media portray women to be beautiful, sexy, and thin frame which often seen on T.V over and over. This is what social media intend for women to see and encourage to look like.…
Misrepresentation is defined as “the action or offense of giving a false or misleading account of the nature of something”. The documentary, Miss Representation, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom addresses this as definition as it applies to the media and politics for women. The documentary tackles the topic of the media’s representation of women and the consequent socialization into traditional gender roles. Not only are traditional gender messages that are perpetuated by the media pervasive, powerful, and pernicious, but also, women’s delayed progress in politics can be traced back to the media’s representation of women.…
Introduction/Summary This documentary Miss Representation exposes how woman in America are treated and presented through the eyes of the media. This documentary was directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, in January, 2011. Screen play actors were Jennifer herself, Jessica Congdon, Clarie Dietrich, and Jenny Raskin. This documentary was created to generate awareness of how woman are treated and presented in the media in verity of way’s that only included them for the male pleasure. This has been a reoccurring theme since the early 1900’s that woman were only good for home makers and wives.…
Hi Julie. I agree with you that pointing out of the three methods of Newton’s work, “Newsom effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that the media does not portray women in a sense that women want to heard by including individuals voicing their thoughts, providing useful information, and personal experience.” First, I agree with you that the film has many individual’s negative perspective towards as a member of the society. As you mentioned, it provided plenty of useful information, such as “They showed the process of a model getting ready to get her makeup done to getting the pictures taken and getting photoshopped to the point where the model was unrecognizable.” I think the most effective method that Newsom used was by…
Module 2: Makers: Women who Make America Part 2 How do the women in the film experience the cultural/societal views of women and gender roles for her times? Women in the film experience the cultural and societal views of women and gender roles for her times, as an accessory. Women are taken advantage and most of them are stay at home wives. Majority of women, obey their male companions, woman are wives, daughters, mothers and eventually aunts & grandmothers.…
The world as we know it, is being influenced by pop culture and the media, and it is doing more harm than good. In the essay “Still Missing: Women in the Media”, by Megan Tady, she discusses the gender issues and inequality in the media news world. Tady talks about the way men have a greater voice and opinion in the media, and decide “how to represent and portray our population in the media” (Tady, 577).…
Miss Representation, a documentary created by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, explores the under-representation of women in America, and it objects to the media's skewed image of women in leadership roles in social media. It does not break new ground on these issues, but it gives viewers an array of perspectives to think about. The film scrutinizes many of the issues related to the portrayal of women in American society that includes leadership roles and the affect on youth. The film expresses this mistreatment through vivid media footage, quotes, statistics, interviews with a diverse group of people and Newsom’s personal experience growing up as a woman in America.…
Hence, the engaging speeches from successful women make its audiences believe on their power. In short, the documentary “Miss Representation” is very interesting and engaging to audiences due to its surprising statistic facts, emotional stories, and engaging guess speakers. This documentation is one of the best educational documentaries for children and teenagers to study because its content will prepare them to deal with stereotypical problem in today’s…
The politics of representation encompass the way in which we, as a society, view the outside world. The media uses this as a way to form what can be a biased and most of the time a misinformed on race, culture, religion and as well as country. As media is a driving force of our everyday lives we often do not question it as it is seen as a reliable source. Leading sources such as Fox News have established a reputation in which viewers despite being extremely biased deem them believable. Representation is also seen in television shows and films, which also educate us in a sense but mostly stereotypically.…
A multitude of photos, videos, and graphics were shown that placed women in positions that were mostly sexual, and all inappropriate, showing that media does not take women seriously. Then the topics moves on to women in politics and how that is negatively affected by media. The film then moves on to the topic of women in movies and television, and how the majority of movies made either revolve around men, or are for the pleasure of men. There is incredible denial in the media industry regarding the status of women. B) PRESENTATION MEDIA– Miss Representation was a documentary that was filmed in color.…
Take for example the Miss America Pageant; the pageant celebrated sexism by portraying women as sex objects. The pageant contestants all featured long legs, toothy smiles, big breasts, and little opportunity to display their IQ (Lytle 269). Friedan’s organization NOW helped raise awareness of the media’s portrayal of women. The NOW organization fought to give women full equality. NOW brought further awareness to equal pay, the right of women to fully participate in society, and be fully equal at home and at work (Lytle 272).…
From the national post is about “Oscars diversity not for women”, in the Oscar event should have the diversity for the women directors can have a chance to win in this award. I think because the women directors and the man directors have different point of views when they make movies. People in societies are different in ways of thinking and perceptive. The Hollywood was generate by men, it may have some points which women directors cannot get in through. Both men and women directors should talk and understand about how to win in the Oscar award and it should might change the standard of Oscar to match with women views.…
It is proven that from 1977 to now that the representation of women in politics has grown increasingly, but not at a fast-steady rate. The main reason women are underrepresented in electoral offices is because there are not a lot of women candidates on the ballot. Women are discouraged from running for these positions due to reasons such as not being able to win the election or not having a female role model to follow in the footsteps of. For women candidates and voters, there is a strong sense that they will not be able to win the election based on their gender. One study conducted showed that “two-thirds of voters believed that women have a tougher time winning elections than men do”.…
When we were first presented with this assignment, the task seemed daunting. There is so much to discuss with the ideas of gender, race, and class. However, once my group put our heads together we decided to talk about women in the media and not only how they respond to negative press but also how they are using their positions to promote feminism. In our modern world, we often use celebrities as models for how we should aspire to act.…