Gender Stereotypes In The Film, Rear Window

Jefferies.” The camera symbolically tell us the story of a man who loved to explore and immortalize moments, now confined in a single room with only his memory to make things last. This is ironic because it is showing a man who is completely miserable in his current situation, but later in the movie he gets entirely wrapped up in the view from his terrible confinement. In fact, he even risks his life because he is so obsessed with his new life. Despite what he physically projects, he loves where he is at. Later in the movie, irony comes up yet again. Miss Lonelyheart is shown setting the table for two. Suddenly, she gets up and opens the door for what is presumed to be her date. However, no one is there. She still escorts this “person” in and seats him at her table. She pours him wine and then collapses in tears, realizing how lonely she has become.

Stereotyping is a major issue in the world today, however, mostly in the United States. It is known as fixed impressions, exaggerated or preconceived ideas about particular social groups, usually based solely on physical appearance (The New York Company). Crash is a great example because it shows others stereotyping individuals in many ways. According to Schingel, it is the perfect analogy of how we as a human race deal with life, people and our own experiences. The movie, released in 2005, shows each character's point of view, rather it be from an African-American, Caucasian, or a Latino. It follows each character throughout the movie to show how they live their daily lives.

3) One of the films would be Erin Brockovich, were Erin is judge for being a single mom based on her appearance she is also label as a whore an example would be Ed that tells her that she looks like someone that likes to have fun, these is of course the stereotypes that society inputs on her. Erin in the film does not meet the ideologies of being femininity and at the end we see that she does succeed at work but her love life and family gets scarified by these.

Imagine you could wear glasses that showed different things out of eachlens. Most likely each pair of glasses, whatever they may look like, serve the same function, to see clearer. However, if you had different lenses which showed different images, out of your right eye you may see an apple and out of your left, an orange. In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, men view women through a different lens than they do others, holding them to different standards and expectations. Within that lense, there are different optical powers which are representative of the double standards men hold for women. Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing takes place in the small town of Messina, located in Italy. The prince of Aragon, Don Pedro, has

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 movie Rear Window captivates the audience by presenting a thrilling murder mystery, where Jeff Jefferies, the masculine hero, is confined to a wheel chair in his apartment, which leads to the spying on his neighbors. In the movie, Hitchcock beautifully captures the turn of events from Jeff’s wrongful surveillance of his neighbors, to catching the killer. His examination of the idea of surveillance and privacy, plays into the current American debate of the rise of the surveillance debate. Hitchcock’s movie also falls into a traditional pattern where men are the active dominant roles and women are the submissive, background roles. Consequently, I believe that women are not a part of the rise of surveillance state conversation,

In the 2005 film The Wedding Crashers directed David Dobkin show many normal gender stereotypes and gender inequalities that are still present in today’s society. The film mainly focuses on two divorce mediators Jeremy and John who enjoy sneaking into wedding parties in order to get drunk off free booze and seduce bridesmaids. Certainly, the film exposes the bromance relationship that Jeremy and John have, which opposes the hegemonic masculinity that society renders on. Their attendance to Secretary Williams’s party exhibits the patriarchy of a white, rich, and powerful man. And lastly the way the guys view women as part of objectification and women displaying sexual agency towards these two gentlemen has been able to change overtime in society where both concepts have become a norm.

Jeffries realises Lisa is more than just beautiful when she expresses her insightful theories about Laars and his wife, things Jeffries would never have thought of, himself. Lisa contributes "Women don't keep their jewellery in a purse, all tangled... A woman going anywhere but the hospital would always take makeup, perfume and jewellery." Detective Doyle dismisses Lisa's ideas as "feminine intuition" and therefore a waste of his time, however Jeffies sticks by his girlfriend. Lisa comes over to Jeffries apartment unannounced with the intention of "staying the night [t]here, uninvited." This was much frowned upon in conservative, fifties society, especially for someone of Lisa's status, however she doesn't seem to much care, she has her own mind. Jeffries admires Lisa's bravery as she drops off the note at Laars' apartment, something he would have done if he was able. She gets back, glowing with excitement and the look on Jeffries face could only be described as adoration. The power in the relationship shifts to Lisa when Lisa expresses her intelligence and

“True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity or political ideology.” (Monica Crowley) Two ideas that have been discussed in this gender unit were, one, we talked about how everyone has a different gender according to how they are. The second idea was that people shouldn’t be defined by their sex at birth, you should be defined by your personality and how you express it.

In the movie, Rear Window, gender role stereotypes are fulfilled while at certain times, they can be reversed. In other words, sometimes men show feminine traits and women show masculine traits. The main characters, Jeff and Lisa, possess both masculine and feminine characteristics that they show throughout this film. This movie emphasizes the stereotypical masculine traits but also shows that men can possess feminine traits as well. In the camera work itself, the camera is pointed upward at a man to show their size and strength.

For thousands of years, established gender roles have been a part of our society. Women are commonly known as sensitive, emotional, or passive. On the contrary, men are described as rational, competitive, independent, or aggressive. Believing women are more emotional than men is stereotyping. However, the stereotype is not entirely untrue. Development of gender roles is often conditioned more by environmental or cultural factors than by hereditary or biological factors. The development of gender roles between men and women involves the inference of peer community of each gender, the communication style of male and female and the intimacy or connection level of men and women.

‘Neighbours’, have challenged the idea of ‘Australianness’ by failing to maintain the storylines of the diverse actors; ‘Sally Pritchard’, ‘Lim family’, ‘Vikram’, the ‘Kapoor’ family ‘Lori Lee’ and ‘Vanessa’. Scholar Jacubowicz (1994) argued ‘’ this has resulted in mainstream media making no effort to cater for the needs and interests of cultural minorities’’. Their short-lived storylines have failed to represent non-white wash television channel. The character ‘Sally Pritchard’, played by Brenda Webb is an aboriginal actress who played the role as a Japanese teacher. Though, her aboriginal heritage was not mentioned it suggests that Indigenous actors are underrepresented in Australian media. The stereotype of cultural groups such as the Chinese ‘Lim’ family were accused of eating a family dog by the character

Women in the Elizabethan age were extremely repressed and discriminated against. Most would not have gone to school or received any type of formal education. They were not allowed to vote, own property, or freely voice their opinions. They were seen as the property of a man, subject to his wants, needs, and not allowed to have their own; men held extremely stereotypical views of their female counterparts that helped them justify the way they treated them. Shakespeare exposes many of these injustices and biases in his stage plays, which are still commonly read and performed today. In Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio moves from seeing women (specifically Hero) as goddesses and wives

The movie “The Accused” portrayed a lot of violence such phsyical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and political, which intersected with race, class, gender, ability, and sexuality. Often times women like Sarah are often called horrible names because of her actions, and many would say that she deserved to be rape because of her behavior. However, I would have to disagree that Sarah should have not been raped. By no means, should I would feel uncomfortable at any times whether she is under the influence or not. It is a horrible feeling that we have people in the world to think that rape is okay because of someone’s action.

In a country that started with men doing physical labor in factories and fields, gender stereotypes still exist today with people believing men should work and women should stay at home. Although this barrier is being broken by many women excelling in their profession, many women still do not receive the respect and honor they deserve. In David Mamet’s play Glengerry Glen Ross, the four salesmen regard that the business world is a “man’s place” and, therefore, must prove their masculinity by winning the company’s competition. The company’s bosses, Mitch and Murray, decide this month that the salesman that sells the most will win a Cadillac, the second best salesman will win a pair of steak knives, and the bottom two men will be fired. In an

As I walked out of my nine-story apartment complex, I saw an interesting array of faces. Mixed genders, some male, some female, all very different deep down inside. I study their faces, wondering what it'd be like to walk a day in their shoes. Some people are like open books, you can look at their facial expression and instantly guess what their emotions are, yet others are like locked diaries. You can't tell what they're thinking and you'll probably never know. I shake the thought out of my head as I rummage through my pathetic excuse of a handbag, pulling out my most recent bank statement. Thirty-two cents to my name. How do I live like this? My train of thought is lost as my mind ponders elsewhere. Do you think people can tell I'm a broke