ok guys help is required to help me pass media studies .....ok the task is to research a sub topic related to the broader topic of 'women in film'...i reckon i'm gonna explore how women role models are created in films and how they affect younger female audiences (either in a negative or positive way)......what do u think? are women role models in film representative of the modern women? are the positive or negative role models? what kind of role models should we see for young women through film? does the gender of the director hold any difference with how the women are portrayed? hope to here from you all.....roly.xxx
one area you could explore is whether or not women role models adhere to Laura Mulvey's paper on the feminine as the subject of the camera/ audiences gaze - if its true then their role model function is reduced a lot, showing the viewers that treating women merely as someone to look at (and as a result sexualise?) is fine and dandy, and that women should enjoy being gazed at etc... I don't know if that helps at all, but yeah, Laura Mulvey is a big name in female film studies over here ( and can you guess that i'm a film nerd too? )
I don't know if this will help your paper at all, but a rather big issue in most of my classes I have taken(I am a Women's Studies major) have been the depiction of women in Disney films. I dont know if this will help your paper or not since they are cartoons, but if you need any info let me know. If this isn't what you are looking for just let me know, I'm sure I can think of something to help you out! Good luck!
women are usually portayed as the helpless victim. many girls wind up in abusive relationships where they think it'll be all right. the idea portrayed in many movies.
Great idea! Compare females who are main characters to supporting roles and then do the same with men. See if theres a big difference in character or a general patern... I dunno...
thanks guys...oh yay! i'm all excited now.....piper yeh send anything u think is of use to gladis321@hotmail.com! yay that applies to anyone interested in helping me !!! roly.xxx
WORST portrals of womyn in film. Pretty Woman (GAG! Prostitutes are desperate, sad, womyn who NEVER get the "Fairy Tale" they get STDs and gang raped and have abortions and uterine infections and age quickly and die young. WHO would think this movie was real or even beleivable?) Body Double (some asshole's jerkoff fantasy, which if you think of it is A LOT of movies anyway. Womyn DON'T act like this. Of course the idea that it is FUN to kill womyn in terribly painful violent ways is common in film, too.) 10 (Do I need to comment. He wants HER, but when she relents he doesn't want her anymore because by wanting HIM, she is suddenly slut. GOD, who writes shit like this? WHO believes it????) Sleepless in Seattle OMG. Needy, pathetic and co dependent. WHO would go to this trouble, just to meet a man? Pathetic is the best word I can come up with for the womyn in this movie. I would imagine all slasher fims, although I have never wasted my time watching one. I am trying to think of some realistic portrayals of womyn if film, I can't think of any now.
when i was young i always found the "outcast" or "rebel" woman in the film to be a more apealing. they always seemed super strong and more interesting...................................................
I think you should, instead of presenting movies that portray negative images of woman, which is pretty standard, you should look for ones that portray positive images of woman. People know what the bad images are, but not so much of what the good images are. You can also concentrate on the actresses. There are actresses out there that make good roll models. Look at Lisa Kudrow. Have you seen her in an interview? She's an incredably intellegent woman. So is Genine Garofalo. Halle Berry, too. Everyone picks on her over the sexy image she has, but there's really nothing wrong with being a sexual woman as long as your body isn't all you have. You should also have talent and half a brain, which she does. I'm sure there are plenty more.
I always find it very clear that women are either the helpless creatures who have to be rescued by those strong, powerful and more intelligent men or they are the mad and frigid characters. And women always have to be beauties (you know: fashionable, slim, long,... so called foxes, but if you see them without make-up, they scare the hell out of ya! ) There's still a difference between men and women and I believe it's all about (unequal) power. kisses
thanks guys this is helping soooooo much! yayayaya....keep up the thinkings and i'll include ideas!!! roly.xxx
You could do Roseanne Barr. She's a bitch, but she's a really important feminist actress. And she's hysterical.
uhm... then what is the theme of Spiderman 1 and 2 again? and all those big Hollywood movies?? it's the damsel in distress
