Lara Croft

Maleficent who is played by the well-known amazing actress Angelina Jolie (known for Lara Croft series). It had been 4 years since Jolie last appeared on the big screen and what an incredible job she did. She brought the evil Maleficent to life. She made us feel Maleficent’s pain and fear. The once evil villain who striked fear in our heart…

What is A Celebrity? Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Oprah Winfrey, Siti Nurhaliza, and P. Ramlee are amongst the names well known by you and me. These famous people are called “celebrities”. A celebrity is a famous person or an individual with a state of being well known . He or she holds a personality that is celebrated by the society by what he or she does. The prominence in his or her doing has made them famous and renowned in the public’s eye. A celebrity could be a singer, an actor, a…

Political news outlets are the most common forms of media and are putting out information (true or false) everyday. Although political news stations have the most views and popularity, there is another media outlet that has been dramatically noticed since its founding in September of 1996. IGN (Imagine Games Network) began when the modern media that the world knows today was just starting to take off. IGN began 5 years after the Internet was launched to the world for private use, and new…

Sexual exploitation of the female body is prevalent in many video games and can have a negative effect on the self-efficacy of female gamers. From Candy Kong to Lara Croft, video games are notorious for their sexual, idealized versions of female characters. In their study, presented in the journal article, “The Effects of the Sexualization of Female Video Game Characters on Gender Stereotyping and Female Self-Concept…

most paid performing artist of Hollywood. Angelina Jolie is the prevalent American performer furthermore a movie producer. Angelina Jolie is an Oscar winning performing artist who got to be famous in the wake of assuming the title part in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster motion pictures, and in addition Salt (2010),Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008) and Maleficent (2014). Jolie has turned out to be conspicuously included in global philanthropy ventures, particularly those including…

Alike the representation of the LGBT community, the representation of femininity in video games can also picture individuals and/or groups in a negative way which influences the way of which members in society view them. Femininity in video games has been more apparent due to the rise of the feminist ideology and the third wave movement. Furthermore, feminine characters are usually portrayed in weaker roles and are more often than not sexualised and objectified. Therefore, this representation…

As video games become more widespread, many complaints have been placed on the level of violence and sex present in these games. What is less spoken about is the level of sexism in video games, both in and out of the game. Research indicates that sexism in these games is a prevalent issue that needs to be addressed as video gaming becomes more popular, especially the effect this has amongst females. Thus, sexist video games are a harmful influence on female players, resulting in lower…

Female characters are in games mostly to exist to be background dolls, damsels in distress, or to be assaulted so the player has something to do (Harwell). However, some characters such as Lara Croft, from the “Tomb Raider” game series, can be seen as a strong, agile, confident, and fearless woman (Burnett). In other video games such as Half-Life, Radiata Stories and Elder Scrolls, women are not sexualized and are represented as respectable…

Video games keeps reinforcing these negative representations and stereotypes each title they release, this negatively impacts the consumers of these videogames by changing their view and expectations of females in reality. Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz & Dana Mastro (2009) stated that the male audiences prefer to choose an ‘’over sexualized’’ and that short term effects of exposure to female video games characters can influence gender related beliefs and self concepts’’. In the Game ‘’Metroid’’ the…

movies or posters where media or movies displayed women muscular or stronger,smarter then the guys. And it is not a surprise that those type of tv shows who tries to change typical standards of the women : tv show Xena:Warrior Princess or the movie Lara Croft ,Mr and Mrs. Smith gets a lot of attention from the media and people and there is no surprise that both genders enjoys…