Gender Roles In Aliens

A researcher named Carol Clover demonstrates a unique research method in her book “Men Women and Chainsaws.” Clover relates gender research into various films, especially “slasher” films. Often times in “slasher” or scarier films females have a primary role. In many of those cinemas females are being tormented and faced with a challenge often by a male tormenter. Clover applies the new theory and selects a specific female character from various “slasher” films. She then digs deeper into the film with an eye on the challenge the female is facing and how she overcomes it. Clover came up with a few claims with a major one being that “slasher” films aren’t trying to insert male dominance but instead focus the viewer how powerful the female(s)

In action movies, many plots contain violent and dangerous scenes. Usually, females cannot burden such dangerous tasks in which even male characters usually get injured (Dargis, 2014). This phenomenon can be attributed to the division of work among females and males. In the long history, males are the ones who join in the army and participate in the war. Females are the ones who prepare supplies at home. Therefore, females seldom join in violent fights. Therefore, the sexualization of action movies is related to the social position of females in history. Fortunately, females are taking more responsibilities from males in action movies. For example, Michelle MacLaren is hired to direct the movie Wonder Woman, which is an action movie with female main characters. This is a breakthrough in the history of action movies and demonstrates a trend of De-sexualization in action movies. Also, female-led action movies like Underworld: Evolution show a direct response to decades of suppression of females in action movies as well as the society (Meslow,

In Hollywood film women 's roles have varied quiet considerably between genres, geographical placement, and period settings. These factors contribute to the different representations of women 's roles in the film they are present in. The roles are diverse going from the traditional maternal role to that of manipulative murderer. Women 's roles in movies can be almost equal to the male roles, and the co-stars are not given the majority of the acclaims just because they are male. Society has set certain standards that women are supposed to follow. The most common image of women is that they are very passive and try to avoid conflict in any situation. More and more in society women are breaking down the social barriers that confine them to their specific roles. The films Rear Window and Resident Evil show women in roles that are untraditional for our society. These two movies help to show how women are rebelling against social norms and that they are taking more active and aggressive roles. In film noir’s we can see women represented as the femme fatale, a woman whose mysterious and seductive charms leads men into compromising or dangerous situations. In action movies we see the heroine who is strong both physically and mentally, and has the ability to use weapons. Women seem to be more trapped than men because they are supposed to live up to society’s standards dealing with beauty and size, which are more physical characteristics. These specific guidelines have been set by

The Siskel and Ebert Halloween Review from 1978 shows how they like how the movie shows how the female character is seen as intelligent, brave and smart. The way the two men spoke about how they felt about the film gave a feminist critic. They were able to put them self in her shoes and think about how they might of felt in that scenario. They see the film as up and positive and see the movie for the film qualities other than the depressing killing. The film focused on film qualities, where the mood, lighting, music and camera angle all played roll in creating the feeling where one can feel that the female actor out smart the bad masked man.

First off, in Carol Clover’s essay“Men Women and Chainsaws” the argument is focused on how women overcome their challenges throughout various films.  Clover focuses in on a few different films and specifically looks for the “Final Girl” which is the last female standing after overcoming their challenges.  All of this brings a new aspect to film watching because Clover’s theory shifts the viewer's attention from focusing on how the male is essentially tormenting a female to zooming in on how the female overcomes the challenge.  Clover does this because she wants to show the viewers a different aspect of film and genre.  This is because Clover feels that instead of having the audience focusing on a main character which is essentially a male tormentor she has them focus on how the female(s) overcome the challenge and defeat their tormentor.  This perspective opens up a new gateway to film

Your _____ depends on whether you were born with distinct male or female genitals and a genetic program that released either male or female hormones to stimulate the development of your reproductive system.

Today’s filmmakers have three areas to focus on: the event or theme of the film, the audience who will be watching the film, and lastly, the individual characters and the roles they play and how they are portrayed and interpreted. Many of these films bottom line objectives are to focus on the “erotic needs of the male ego.” The focus on fetishistic scopophilia tend to slant the view such that we see the world as being dominated by men and that woman are

Horror movies throughout history have been known to have their cheesy storylines or continuous bad acting. Especially horror movies. People nowadays could easily spot the flaws in a film and judge them drastically in reviews. Yet, little do people notice the ongoing discrimination between genders. Horror films tend to portray males and females substantially differently because of stereotypical views. There seems to be a pattern in which each gender takes a certain role in a movie continuously. Females are shown to be “objects” such as sex and emotional symbols, while males are shown as strong or powerful and moreover as the main bad guy. Although some of the newer edition films of the horror genre are displaying each gender more and more equal throughout the ongoing years, the gender discrimination dilemma still exists and can be seen by the statistics in the movie industry in general.

It’s crazy to think the world has made it such a bad place for women with such bad stereotypes and such bad use and Mysteries on what they do and how they are and how they work. that they can use being feminine to scare other people. Whether this is social commentary or just something they used because it’s seen as terror, it is deliberate. For example the first oral rape scene, when an alien creature is stuck to one of the crew members face, this is a common fear in women's heads, and a worse fear for men because they are not taught that this is a possibility for them. Another example to follow that is the birth scene, when the alien then tears out of the crew members stomach leaving bloody mess. Birth is a natural event for a woman, it’s hard to not see birth when you think about it. The baby alien comes out of his stomach which is commonly known for its fertility. This natural act has turned into unimaginable horror. The blocking in the birthing scene looks undeniably like a mother giving birth in a hospital. He gets up on the table and lines down with his legs up and he's breathing very heavy. The lighting in the room looks very sterile and white just like a hospital would look hospital. This is the same scene that woman would described if given the takes to. There's lots of blood and guts, acting like a birth scene because births are bloody as well. Everyone around her is panicked, like a mother giving birth everyone is panicked when the woman goes into labor period next everyone is staring at her when the when the alien comes out the stomach associated with fertility and birth and childbearing. The scene is horribly gross. The man end up dying during the birth, but this is actually something that happens to some women when they give birth. Bearing the baby is so hard it does kill them sometimes. it's so scary to

From prehistory to 1450 CE, in many different and complex civilizations, religion has influenced the gender roles of many societies. From prehistory to 600 BCE, in Mesopotamia, women could own property, maintain their dowry, and even trade. However, from 600 BCE to 600 CE, in Rome, women were completely under the control of their paterfamilias. Than, from 600 to 1450 CE, in the Byzantine Empire, women were constrained to their homes, and when they went out, they had to wear veils over their faces. Religion influenced the gender roles of many societies and civilizations from prehistory to 1450 CE.

Cameron’s Aliens movie track the strength of gender stereotypes and identities through characters research and rescue mission, eventually breaking down the common idea In this film Ellen Ripley is the only survivor of the space freighter Nostromo, she was rescued after fifty-seven years and revived after drifting for fifty-seven years in hyper sleep. The story line of this science fiction movie Aliens, incorporate a search and short summary of the movie where Ellen Ripley go back to space after being rescued. Ellen agreed to

Creed, B. 1999. Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection. Feminist Film Theory, a Reader, edited by. Sue Thornham. New York: New York U P.

Since the 1940’s, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. Beginning in the 1940’s and continuing though the 1980’s, women did not have major roles in movies. When they did have a leading role the women was either pretreated as unintelligent and beautiful, or as conniving and beautiful: But she was always beautiful. Before the 1990’s, men alone, wrote and directed all the movies, and the movies were written for men. In comparison, movies of the 90’s are not only written and directed by women, but leading roles are also held by older and unattractive women. In this paper I will show the variations and growth of women’s roles in movies from the 1940’s though the 1990’s.

Filmmakers use traditional gender stereotypes to produce characters audiences can easily identify with by portraying conventional images of a person with identifiable characteristics. In previous years, the dominant representation of a women in film has been the passive, subjugated protagonist. However, through the development of female empowerment and added feminist representations of film, the female heroine transformed to become strong and independent women in her own right, as an individual character.

The presentation of women on screen is another highlighted issue in many of the gathered sources. Because men were ultimately in control of what went on the screen much of what the audience perceived were women from the male imagination or fantasy. Bernard Beck elaborates in his article Where the Boys Are: The Contender and other Movies about Women in a Man’s World that, “…women have been used to dress up a male story or motivate a male character” (Beck 15). Women were often insignificant and trivial characters. Although, Kathe Davis disagrees to a point. In her article, Davis offers a dissonant opinion to the fore-mentioned insignificance of the female character. She instead describes many female characters as “predators,” and analyzes the roles of lead women in three prominent films of the nineteenth century. In each film, she finds parallels and similarities of cases of “female emasculation” and instances where “women are turned into objects of male desire” (Davis 47-48). Davis does not perceive female characters as being insignificant, just stripped of their power and misrepresented. She discusses how females of power are often portrayed as crazy