Gender Roles In Ex Machina

“A League of Their Own” is a very impacting movie that depicts the impact of women in sports throughout the 1940s. During this era, men were away in World War II, leaving the women to take their spots in many of their duties. Baseball had been a very well known sport throughout the country. Women playing baseball was unordinary, however it quickly grew to be very popular which led to the inauguration of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. This was a way for the women to get out, have fun, and relax with other females. The film presents several traditional gender stereotypes and female limitations in sports, some which still exist today.

First of all, I’ll focus on the film that we covered in the course---Run Lola Run. Actually there is a very interesting binary opposition between the main characters, Lola and Manni. Their gender roles in the film are absolutely different in our reality, they are switched positions. And I would like to discuss it further more in the theory of Claude Levi-Strauss.

Women have different personalities and motivations, and they form relationships with men for many different reasons. Some of these reasons include love, money, and even lust and manipulation. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is a novel about Sam Spade, who is a huge figure of the hard-boiled detective genre. Sam Spade goes on a quest to find a valuable falcon, solve murders and jump over the obstacle that surround him on a daily basis. The novel is also about the three women who surround Spade during his quest. The names of these women are Iva Archer, Effie Perine, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, and they all have different roles in Sam Spade’s life. In The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, Brigid O’Shaughnessy plays the role of femme fatale, Iva Archer plays the role of Spade’s unfortunate future, and Effie Perine plays the role of Spade’s right-hand woman.

David Fincher’s Fight Club, 1999, contains strong themes of masculinity and enforced gender roles. It is subjective, however, whether or not the gender narrative within the film complies with modern feminist values, or serves as nothing more than masculine empowerment. The two critical texts I have chosen to study are Masculinity in Crisis and Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders: Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence, both of which analyse Fight Club through a feminist lens. My first critical text views the film as a feminist statement on the toxicity of masculine violence, while my second text finds more faults with the gender roles in the film.

In contemporary film women's roles in films have varied quiet considerably between genres, geographical placement, and between

In the open introduction of “M/F boxes” by E.J. Graff, Graff talks about sexual orientation and society during the past. A few examples, there was a 15-year-old girl who was incarcerated in a mental hospital in 1981 for not wearing a dress. A man fired after 20 years from his job because his boss found out he wears women clothes at home. Small time hustle raped and killed, because he was physically a female. A woman bleeds to death after paramedics discover she has male genitals. Before even coming into the world we are given are genders, male or female. Then you have others who when become of age not sure on whether they want to be a male or female.

The female characters in Frankenstein serve as symbols of gentleness and comfort to the males

Female characters such as Justine, Elizabeth, and Agatha are used for the teaching or control of a man. Justine is a passive lady and does not think much about herself. When she is framed for murder she becomes very passive as if she does not care. She take full responsibility but she even says she full well knows she did not do any hasteful act she believes that she must accept this wrong oppression because society has told her that is what she must do. Elizabeth in Frankenstein was one of the helpers for Viktor and the whole entire Frankenstein family. Throughout the story she wants to see much of Viktor’s attention. This means she is basically waiting for the attention of a man, Viktor, which is not very uncommon during this time period. All though this may be common it lead to many other women feeling like they needed a man to do anything in their lives which made them passive. Agatha herself is a little girl that does not have much to offer but what she does offer is compassion to the monster. This shows that without her putting herself out there and doing something good for what other people may like or find important that she may have been a useless thing in

The movie that I am going to be writing about is called Run Lola Run directed and written by Tom Tykwer, released in 1998. This movie is about a girl, Lola, who has to save her boyfriend, Manni, from the mob by getting 100,000 marks to him in twenty minutes and is about her efforts to get to him in three separate runs. The topic that I am going to focus on is the representation of gender in Run Lola Run compared to more typical representations in other movies. The four main topics that I am going to discuss are the history of gender representation, a look back at how gender is portrayed in movies in the past, gender in genre and with character, which is looking at different characters that broke or follow typical gender representation and

The overall theme of the 1950s depicts the representation of women and their linkage to sexuality. In unit two Marilyn Monroe, Barbie, and beauty pageants expose how many parallels are transparent. As the golden age lecture points out during this duration women received punitive treatment compared to men when it came down to categories composed of their sexuality (Vlahoulis, 2018). Women were expected to maintain a positive image and not appear sexual but carry themselves in a domestic goddess way. In fact, they were expected to shelter their sexuality for wifely duties and propagating offspring. As for women like Marilyn Monroe she was the center of a sex symbol for women of her time and was thought to be a “dumb blonde” based on roles assigned to her in her career as an actress. However, Monroe had a life behind the eye of the public and detrimental childhood experiences influenced a broad array of her actions and encounters she had with the men in her life.

M. Keith Booker published a book entitled Disney, Pixar and the Hidden Messages of Children’s Films where he states “Angie and Lenny, the latter of whom homophobic groups such as the conservative Christian fringe group the American Family Association decoded as gay because of his peaceful nature”(Booker) M. Keith Booker is an English Professor at the University of Arkansas and is a credible source. However McMillan fails to provide the reader with any evidence to back up his claim. McMillan also argues the gender bias that the robots n Wall-E embodies stating “Wall-E receiving similar comments in regards to the gender bias present in the duties given to the “male” and “female” robots.” (McMillan) The author did not explain in detail how this statement supported his argument as opposed to Dr. Gwen Sharp who wrote an article about gender bias titled Gender

This idea can be backed up by numerous studies. According to an examination of different sex roles by Toni Antonucci and Hiroko Akiyama, women have

While watching the “Ladies Room” episode of Mad Men, a lot of traditional gender roles were portrayed. Gender roles are often defined as how a society defines how women and men should think and behave. Men are often taught to show instrumental qualities, such as competitiveness, dominance, and confidence, while women exhibit more expressional qualities, such as empathy and sensitivity. The Mad Men episode started off with a man showing dominance by being demanding towards a waitress. While at work, the men competed against each other all while messing around and having fun at work. Women in the episode expressed themselves by gossiping and showing feelings towards others.

In The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main character, Hester Prynne, is shown to both accept and reject the traditional gender roles in society. Her display of certain characteristics of each of the roles both reinforces and undermines patriarchal ideology. According to Lois Tyson, “traditional gender roles cast men as rational, strong, protective, and decisive; they cast women as emotional (irrational), weak, nurturing, and submissive” (Tyson 85). While you have the presence of both, patriarchal ideology is prominent as well. Patriarchal ideology is used to explain or make an excuse as to why women can not be equal to men, and Hester manages to go along with, as well as challenge, these ideals as “the embodiment of deep contradictions” (NPR article).

Mulvey explains that women are sexualized to keep interest and deviate the viewer from the prime story line. “The presence of a woman in