Gender Issues In Miss Representation

Throughout today’s society, media contributes to almost everyone’s daily life. From informative news channels to comical television shows, media proves to be effective in advertisement, releasing messages and informing the audience. Although media proves to be wildly effective in advertising, releasing messages and informing the audience, periodically destructive and misleading messages are provided to the audience and directly influencing women. Cultural critics widely agree that media tends to negatively influence women and all the critics point to research which supports the belief that women are portrayed as subordinate to men, having no

media in today’s society and culture. The documentary is arguing that women in the media are not

“Miss Representation” is a documentary film that is made by Jennifer Seibel Newsom. This film talks about many issues from the roles of females in politics, and the ways in which media negatively impacts women. The film examines how the media have contributed to the underrepresentation of women. Therefore, eventually, the film is persuading people to be open-minded, and study how media affects our perception, judgment, and behaviors. The targeted audience of this film is all people who live in America. People should be convinced to change their mind about stereotypes on women. Jennier effectively convinces the audience that the mainstream media has mainly contributed to the under-representation of women through the use of statements claimed

The Miss Representation documentary film by Jennifer Newsom explores how media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions. This message is portrayed by delivering content through media and technology as well as advertising partial and/or often degrading interpretations of women. The consequences are becoming more and more dreadful. In today’s world, composed of a million stations, people will tend to do more and more shocking things to break through the crowds. They resort to violent, sexually offensive, or demeaning images. Jean Kilbourne, EdD, filmmaker, Killing Us Softly Author and Senior Scholar Wellesley Center’s for Women states, that “it creates a climate in which

In Miss Representation, many female actresses, news anchors, politicians, directors and producers talk about how females suffer a lot of social, political and economic inequalities in today’s society. There are double standards against women in magazines, on TV, in movies, the news, politics, and the workplace. The media is an influential part of modern culture. When women are portrayed as objects for men to use -- never as the protagonist or president -- and when female news anchors are objectified, this will cause girls of all ages to begin viewing themselves as objects. Girls grow up in a world where their voice does not count; where our culture does not embrace them in all of their diversities, where

"Miss Representation" is a documentary film that talk about how the media have contributed to the women in positions of the society today. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, "Miss Representation" exposes how social media and culture contribute to American women's position, representation, and power in United States. First of all, the trailer brings the audiences many opened questions and statistical numbers that are trying to be surprised and compelling to the audiences. Those pieces of information, however, are not attached any resources or origins. On the other hand, the trailer is successful in employing the main music which is really intensive.

In the documentary Miss Representation, the theme of underrepresentation of women is explored. This underrepresentation of women in positions of power is caused by women’s portrayals in the media. The different stereotypes that the media presents are placed on women on the daily basis by those who come into contact with the media, which leads to greater levels of underrepresentation. Everyone gets the messages the media presents because the media in one way or another touches everyone.

Gender and the Media by Rosalind Gill addresses gender stereotypes that are brought onto women and men through the media resulting in objectification and subjectification. Gill discusses how the representation of gender is altered as a result of the media in Western societies. Gender and the Media is aimed to address the rapid transmission of media and how those changes affect the construction of feminine and masculine gender roles in society. Gill uses her interest in the contradictions of gender construction by society, to analyze gender and the media. Using feminism as a backbone for her research, Gill and many commentators support the idea that feminist ideas are common and may even affect the media. Gender and the Media addresses multiple forms of media: postfeminism in advertising, gender in the news and journalism, and gender in magazines. Gild aims to address the construction of gender representations, elements for gender analysis, and feminist culture with Gender and the Media.

Throughout Miss Representation, there were many arguments about how women are portrayed in the media. There will never be an equal balance of people who are content with what goes on and how women are seen in this world. According to the documentary, the media is important because it relays information quickly and it is the fastest information source out there. Today, the media is very easily accessible being in everyone back pockets. Technology has made it so easy to manipulate everyone’s minds and make people think they have to be someone they are not.

“People learn more from media than any other single source of information” (Missrepresentation). This quote exemplifies how society learns and creates their standards about people, places, and things. All sources and mediums of media impact billions of lives every day. The media holds this power over society and it’s time to change that; especially when it comes to the media’s view of women. Women are constantly being misrepresented. This misrepresentation of women in the media is negatively impacting America by corrupting both the youth and adults. This is occurring because of the hyper-sexualization of women, wrongly portraying women in leadership positions, and creating stereotypes of women in movies and television.

‘Miss Representation’ is an American documentary, released in 2011 by Girl Club Entertainment. This movie goes through the detrimental effects that the medias portrayal of females has for our society. These unattainable, yet expected standards of beauty are leading young women down a dangerous path of depression, anorexia, and other psychological issues. Miss Representation expands on the idea that mainstream media has heavily contributed to the demeaning representation of women. Powerful women are especially affected by this, as their achievements are overpowered and overshadowed by their looks, becoming condescended by the derogatory portrayals of females presented in TV shows, movies, magazines, videogames, music videos and even toys.

“The media is the message and the messenger and increasingly a powerful one”. When I was younger, I would always hear or read about how the media corrupts and manipulates people, and after watching the film Miss Representation which was written and produced by Jennifer Siebel I have become more aware of how biased the media is towards women and how women are misportrayed in the media. In the film there are many examples of how women are degraded in the media and misrepresented due to the media’s/male's perspective. The Portrayal of women in the media is causing young women to think that they have to measure up to the media’s expectations and look a certain way to be somebody and this makes me sad and upset.

The message that was presented in the video “Miss Representation” was that the media is a powerful tool to shape the world. However, the media has been utilized not for the benefit of human being instead in the most negative way that anyone can possibly think of. It has indeed shape the representation of women globally in this generation. It degenerated the name of woman and what they are capable in this world whether they are use for political, and/or economical. The trailer for Miss Representation presented this powerful message through the usage of a video of selected people being interviewed about feminism and the cruelty that they endure during the twentieth century. This highly sensitive message in the video of Miss representation is

In the media, journalist, film also "abused" the image of women in a casual way. As we have seen, in movies, women are like "games" for men to enjoy and play, which is really sad for women. They cherish men like a hero, and see women as their servants, the existence of the woman has always been considered wasted. The video " Miss Representation" is the video has been made to defend and protect the rights of women. As an encouragement, this movie has taken a lot of reviews of many

The trailer of the movie Miss Representation is very impressive because it skillfully use techniques in several ways, which are the texts it quotes, the data it uses, the media materials and people’s statements in this movie trailer, as well as the background music. To begin with, it quotes words from a famous American writer, Alice Walker. After that, there comes a series of data which includes the amount of time that the American teenagers spend on media resource such as television programs, music, movies, magazines and online media information. Thereupon a large amount of shocking video clips of advertisements, MTVs and video games appear, while using the viewpoints and analysis from several well-known professional people, include CEOs