The Quiet Man

certain masculine stereotype. However in Max Brand’s “The Ghost," the male hero possesses mainly feminine qualities and fulfills both male and female gender roles. This complex protagonist suggests Max Brand is exploring a new idea of what makes a man. In doing so Brand discourages the codes of hegemonic masculinity, and uses positive feminine qualities in order to create a new breed of male hero, who displays feminine qualities, and uses them to dominate the traditional male cowboy. Within…

Alfred Hitchcock, also known as Hollywood’s master of suspense, has influenced Hollywood today immensely through his creative movies. Out of the many of his films, there was his 1959 film called, North by Northwest. The main stars of this movie, Eve Kendall played by Eva Marie Saint, and Roger Thornhill played by Cary Grant, go on an adventurous journey. Viewers see the recreation of this in the 2008 movie called, Eagle Eye, where Shia Labeauf as Jerry Shaw, and Michelle Monaghan as Rachel…

The three texts selected “A Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity” by Shira Chess and Adrienne Shaw, “Hypermasculinity & Dickwolves: The Contentious Role of Women in the New Gaming Public” by Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett, and “Exploring Gender, Feminism and Technology from a Communication Perspective: An Introduction and Commentary” by Michele H. Jackson. These texts range to a diverse range of ideals and women…

around, weak and quiet, in the background. Now however, I have begun to notice the commercial advertising for both boys and girls. You see in everyday ads that the women are always seen as beautiful and weak, while the man is strong, emotionless, and fearless. Why is it that we start to set these…

listened, a woman dressed in a black dress stepped up next to him. Her hair was tied up away from her face in a long silky ponytail, and in her hands was a glass filled with blue liquid. “I’ll never understand why you like this place...” The young man didn’t move, but he did smile at her as she leaned against the rails, her back turned away from the concert. “It felt like a nice change,” after all this was only his third time at this bar. “Besides the singers got a nice voice, don’t suppose…

but especially in the film industry. In popular action films, both males and females are given specific gender roles that define the expectations of what an ideal man and women should be. In action movies, men are portrayed as strong, independent heroes. Dauntless and unafraid, the hero in action films is almost always portrayed by a man. Men gender roles do not change drastically from film to film in that they are almost always the leader. In the movie Mad Max, the story takes place in a…

staring at him. His heart dropped as he heard the tiger roar, he turned away from the door and started to run desperately looking for something with which to fight back. His body trembled in fear and he could barely run he was so scared. The crowd went quiet just waiting to see what came out of the door; the princess looking as pale as she had ever looked. The king with a devilish grin on his face. Suddenly the crowd went wild when they saw the tiger's two front legs step out of the door. The…

Not So Quiet, Hospital Sketches, and Tea are all works that are giving insight to how women experience war and its effects. Not So Quiet and Tea do not have title chapters that transition you through the chapters, with a small insight into what the chapter is about. It is just a steady flow through each. Where Hospital Sketches…

Goldstein, and Detective Cole played by Joshua Stephenson. Approximately 80 people attended the event in the studio theater on Saturday, May 13th at 8pm. The audience did not participate, and I did not participate either. It was a play, so I remained quiet but actively listened and engaged the entire time. The play takes place in 1998 and follows the story of an unlikely relationship between Sara, a 3rd grade teacher from St. Louis who moves to New York after getting a fellowship to teach in the…

femininity or masculinity. Toxic masculinity is a norm is our society and does not raise any flags; however, it also creates a disgusting culture that advertises this stigma that men must fulfill their role as ‘the man’ to be counted as one. Little boys are pressured to be a ‘man’ and a man doesn’t enjoy anything that is seen as feminine because doing so would take away their masculinity; and apparently, having and expressing your feelings is a ‘girl thing’. Due to this, boys and men are forced…