Female Gaze Video Analysis

After completing your movie analysis, you will reflect on the analysis process and how you have learned to more thoroughly analyze film as well as how rigorous study of film enhances your development as a student and thinker. In this 300- to 600-word reflection, review your initial post from the “Post Your Introduction” discussion in Week One, and consider how your ability to analyze movies has changed or grown. Append your reflection to the analysis portion of your paper. Your reflection should be personal and exploratory in

Through this directorial concept I intend to expose the unjust double standards that men have regarding women. Through clear emphasis on this theme I want to capture the raw human emotion of women,

My film analysis is about the film Love & Basketball. This film includes some examples of what we have talked about in class. Controlling images and black masculinity are two topics that come to mind when I watched this film. Controlling images are images in which hold black women into four categories: “mammies, matriarchs, welfare recipients, and hot mommas”. In the Black masculinity case, Mark Anthony Neal’s “New Black Man” brings up Black Masculinity when he talks about the “strong black man.”

The Thanksgiving Holiday allows families come together and discuss the many topics throughout their daily lives. This is shown within my family well, since the tradition in my family is to exchange stories about the year. During my story exchange I began a discussion about the documentary seen within Gender and Society titled, Tough Guise. I explained that the main purpose of this documentary was to show masculinity within today’s society through stereotypes, body images and violence. My grandmother, who has always been interested with Sociology, became the main person I spoke with about the topic. This allowed the discussion to be more in depth and informational.

Also, most people who would be interested in taking the time to watch this would be somewhat familiar with Gbowee or the plight of Liberia. There is also the possibility of future students in Women’s studies courses, intercultural communication, or otherwise at Columbia and other schools watching this to gain additional perspective.

My topic is how my view changed after watching a video about Sojourner Truth reenacted by Kerry Washington. The video was called “Ain’t I a Woman” and how women weren’t treated equally like men

No matter where we are to go, there will always be a society, expectations, limits, love, and hate. It is never ending, but that is not the only reason people are feeling like they do. The documentary first focuses on the downgrading of women.

Consequently, in film, women do not describe the world from their point of view. Instead, women learn to “submerge or renounce” their subjectivity; they find their own identity in the desires of the men to which they are attached (654). Therefore, Devereaux concludes, the issue is not whether it is a male or female who is doing the looking. Rather, the question is whether a patriarchal way of seeing the world triumphs regardless of who is behind the camera. In this sense, the discussion of the “literal” gaze becomes a discussion of the figurative gaze (654).

Compare and contrast the presentation of gender in two films we have looked at on the course

in the way women are portrayed in modern culture and society. The documentary forces us to

The female spectator identifies with the ideal mirror image of the self on screen, one who acknowledges the pleasures and concerns of a woman living under the capitalist nuclear family while remaining desirable and maintaining the dominant order.

The video material that I chose to view for this assignment were music videos, which was an unsurprisingly easy decision to make for writing about gender stereotypes. Music videos are watched by millions every day, and many of these provide misogynistic visual media that has been regulated and accepted by society. These negative connotations for women showing them in highly gendered roles mainly doing medial things such as dancing around in lingerie or fawning over a rich, famous, and/or successful man are dangerous towards equality for genders. Young girls and boys seeing this kind of harmful content could lead them to grow up believing they have to conform to these stereotypes and gender roles instead of living how they would prefer.

In the video by 60-second Recap dubbed “Thesis Statements: Four Steps to a Great Essay,” the speaker is articulate and begins the video by clearly stating what the viewers should expect from the video. I like the way the speaker is concise and goes straight to the point; she offers a lot of information in only less than four minutes and thirty seconds. The speaker strategically explains her subject using four clearly defined steps and provides an example of developing a thesis statement using a familiar book; this actually made me realize the relevance of the video since it provided a relatable example. After she was finished she again did a recap of the four steps again; this made me feel she was so insightful and knew what she was doing as

The film goes into interviews with scholars about the study and flashes to scenes from the play Miss Evers’ boys. The issues and reasoning for the study are both discussed

This video relates to several chapters in our sociology book, the main chapter being chapter ten, race and ethnicity. This movie focused on the struggle in our country with discrimination of those