Laura Wheeler Waring Essay

There are many movies that are known by the name chick flick movies. Chick flick movies are movies which are dedicated to female viewers instead of male viewers. Chick flick movies are referred to as “a sappy movie for women that men don’t like / chick flicks are commercial films that appeal to female viewers” (Ferriss and Young 2). This is true as chick flick movies concentrate mostly upon female characters. There are many movies that are referred to by the name chick flick; one of these movies…

Laura Mulvey, in “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975), reveals how traditional cinema is imbued with an active male gaze that communicates dominant and sexist ideologies. She argues that classical Hollywood movies reflect the patriarchal system in which they are produced, with women being “looked at and displayed” for the (assumed) male spectator’s pleasure. While the success of several recent female-led blockbusters seem to indicate a shift toward greater female representation, I…

Illinois. Looking back at the decisions he made, he realized he should've attended his Dream School and now wonders how his NBA career would be different. Just like in Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel argues that those who don’t follow their passion will have regrets In Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel argues that those who don’t follow their passion will have regrets. Tita returned to the ranch to take care of her ailing mother. She tried to give Mama Elena great care but soon…

The male gaze is the way in which visual arts depicts women for a masculine point of view. Mulvey suggests that visual media exposes a deep-seated drive known as “scopophilia”: the sexual pleasure involved in looking. Mulvey believed mainstream movies are filmed in a certain way in order to satisfy male scopophilia. Therefore, according to this theory woman are regulated to the status of objects to be admired for physical appearance. Mulvey argues that erotic scenes in films don’t have any…

3. PURPOSE a. The purpose of Mindy’s narrative is to educate her audience on how the filming industry and Hollywood portrays woman and set high standards and expectations to satisfy the male character. This illustrates one of the main themes known as ‘male dominance’ that is portrayed throughout her narrative. This theme is evident as Mindy describes each archetype; she ends each anecdote with each woman satisfying and being loved by a male character, despite any flaws or struggle that she may…

“Bonsai!” Go ahead, rush to the comment section with your hate-filled rants, it won’t bother me one bit, because this is my list and not yours. Now, for those who have decided to take the time tohear me out, this folks, is the single greatest form artistic representation of 2017. While Twin Peaks: The Return is a prescribed continuation of the TV series that ended over 25 years ago, The Return does not conform to any previous modes of television, including its prior two seasons. With that being…

Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to the widely popular film shedding light on the male entertainment industry, is a film that is geared towards heterosexual women and their viewing pleasure. The audience follows Mike, a male stripper-turned-furniture business owner, as he reunites with his former stripper buddies and travels to Myrtle Beach for a final appearance at a male stripper convention. Delving into the themes of the sexualization of the male body and fulfillment of female pleasure, Magic Mike…

Thematic - Polanski’s depiction of Gender Roles and Voyeurism Polanski demonstrates and explores themes of voyeurism and gender roles in his films. Even one of his first student short films Uśmiech zębiczny (translated as ‘Teeth Smile’) (1957) explores these themes. In this short film, the man’s intense facial expressions and eagerness to stand on his toes to look through suggest that sexual desires is a warzone between men and women, and is something that has to be fought for. In this short…

In Linda Williams’s article “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess”, she focuses on three film genres that have a certain power to excite, yet lack of aesthetic elements. Three film genres she discusses are pornography, horror, and melodramas. The reason she concentrates on these genres is because she believes that these films provoke primitive emotions (pleasure, fear, pain), which manipulate the body at a sensational level. In these films, there is the absence of proper aesthetic distance…

According to a case study ‘Gender Inequality in 500 Popular Films’ (Stacy, 2013) by University of Southern California, it examines the gender roles of speaking characters in top-grossing films, through the data to show the gender representation in the mainstream films. In the films that released in 2012, there are out of 4,475 speaking characters on screen, but only 28.4% are female which shows females are grossly underrepresented on screen, this result reflects Mulvey’s view “the character…