The videos presented talk about three different movies, Halloween, Frozen, and 300. The videos use the gender studies and queer theory to criticize the movies. I believe that gender studies and queer theory was used because the videos focus on the genders used in the movies. Also another approach that was used was the feminist criticism.
According to The Norton Introduction to Literature, gender studies “turned to interpretation of the text in ideological context regardless of the sex or intention of the author.” (Mays,1989) In the honest trailer for the movie 300, the video focuses on the movie having nothing but men on it. The review basically focuses on how men were portrayed as having to be muscular and very fit. Throughout the majority of the movie it is also nothing but males, fighting against each other in war. Which is the “normal” thing to see, because if it was girls fighting it would be an unusual scene. The video also uses phrases that can be seen as the author trying to hide his real sexuality, which is what gender studies is also a part of. It is stated in The Norton Introduction to Literature that
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In the movie Frozen, it has two princesses which we are used to only seeing one in movies. At some point in the movie Elza also becomes the villain which is unusual because she is the princess as well. A regular Disney movie usually just has one princess who falls in love with a prince, but in Frozen neither of them fall in love with a prince, rather only one of the princesses falls in love with a normal resident from where they live. In this video there is also some of the feminist criticism used. Feminist criticism is used because it is two princesses fighting against evil, when usually women are portrayed as weak and are in need of a prince rescuing them. In the movie Ana and Elza are portrayed as independent, strong, and capable of making their own
“Gendered Media: The Influence of Media on Views of Gender”, further highlights the difference between males and females in media giving specific examples from a variety of movies. In this article, an emphasis is also made that media is the most persuasive influence on how we as a society view men and women. Male focused films tend to embody the stereotype of men being tough, independent, sexually aggressive, etc. and lack the interest in participating in homely activities or the care of children. Women, on the other hand, are typically displayed as young, thin, dependent on men,
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
Just like what John Musker says, “We thought it would be very appealing to do a female empowerment story that didn’t center on any sort of romance” (Berman 2016). The hearts of their stories focused less on finding true love and more on journeys, selflessness, and self-discovery. The first thing to point is that nobody of these leads’ – except for naïve Anna – core story aims was to fall in love. Tiana (The Princess and the Frog 2009) driven hard to become an effective business holder, Rapunzel (Tangled 2010) desired to discover the outside world, Merida (Brave 2012) wished to evade being married off in the name of practice, and Anna and Elsa (Frozen 2013) were looking to save each other, reconstruct their relationship and keep their empire from being overhauled by an outside threat. This period in Disney cinematography also took the time to highpoint relations between women for the first time. Just like in Brave, the chief bond is revolving between daughter and mother. There are plenty Disney movies to have explored love, but this one stands out and is experienced by most teenagers – the altering scene of the mother–daughter bond. Similarly, Frozen mainly focuses on the sisterly bond between Anna and Elsa. Jennifer Lee states that “She wanted to create characters they both could relate to, and felt the bond between sisters would be more accessible to a young girl than the lure of romantic love” (The Columbian 2014). Again, Disney took steps to discover something foreign to its earlier movies. By representing firm women and the inner workings of their relations, the last few Disney animated films showed a more precise reflection of the world. Based on the past of Disney Princesses above, we are sighted stronger role models creating their way into children’s
In conclusion, the film She’s the Man shows the audience how gender gets represented in films. It shows the traditional femininity as well as the traditional masculinity. This illustrates that gender has impacts on power and gender relations to contribute gender inequality. Gender norms are enforced in films which maintain the power inequality difference between both genders. These issues confine the way modern films represent gender and gives a direct effect to the
What if you had a child who was experiencing gender dysphoria? A child who didn’t feel that they were comfortable being the gender that they were born into? What would you do if your child wanted to become the opposite gender? In the documentary “Growing up Trans” (TV Episode 2015) Children who are experiencing gender dysphoria tell their stories about what it’s like growing up transgender. The documentary offers insight on the issues and complications the children and their parents face while transitioning.
Both male and female characters act in varied ways, doing terrible things along the way. Constantly, however, men view women as less than equals, something to control or to be attained, and this is visible in many of the main male characters. Women are portrayed in conventional
Like most popular gender-bending films, Some Like It Hot calls us to critique constructions of sexuality and gender both within the context of historicized moment of the films production and from the perspective of later
Criticism Honest Trailers - Frozen Feminism In the frozen movie, the greatest criticism revealed is feminism. Throughout the movie, men have been portrayed as weak characters with no power. Elsa is depicted as a character with great power due to the unique gift of magic she has. After realizing the power she possesses, she starts revealing it instead of disguising it.
The biggest challenge while researching and writing this paper was strictly presenting scholastic and objective arguments in order to avoid bias and reduce critics’ opportunity to discredit or delegitimize my work, especially those who oppose feminism. Presenting a rebuttal statement and then counteracting it with more critical arguments of how that specific repudiation is problematic, acknowledges critical audiences’ concerns while remaining adamantly strong in my stance. I was conscious to pay the respected attention to detail when selecting rhetoric language as it conveys the appropriated tone and mood of the paper to the reader as it represents the film. Just as typical research papers require, my primary source, The Little Mermaid, is immediately and easily identifiable within the paper, and unlike most scholarly works, the analyzed topic is the primary source itself. However, the problematic dynamics the film presents based on the sexist theme it poses, may be too broad and largely based without adequately supportive and specified examples from the film. This was another one of the concerns I had when I first began to construct my paper because there were so many different examples of female
A gender reading is perhaps one of the more basic ways to view a text. Gender inequality is a prominent issue not only in society, but also in films. In modern day society, we have reached a time where feminine expectations are no longer for women to be traditionally delicate, dependent, and weak. Instead they
Structuralism stands dominant in this video as the narrator is quick to point how the film’s story, editing, and characters are all very similar to past Disney and Pixar films (Screenjunkies, Honest Trailers -Frozen) (Mays 1308-09). The narrator also goes on to highlight how gender plays a larger role in the story (Screenjunkies, Honest Trailers -Frozen). First, by mentioning how the female leads are very empowered in a Feministic way (Screenjunkies, Honest Trailers -Frozen) (Mays 1323-24). Second, they move on highlighting the role males play in the story, and the near sexist representation of it.
In contemporary film women's roles in films have varied quiet considerably between genres, geographical placement, and between
Frozen was labeled a monumental change in Disney’s film industry. Disney Princess films in the past have consisted of a female damsel in distress being saved by a male love interest. Disney has realized this was outdated and adapt the film frozen to fit modern viewpoints. Frozen is a movie about sisterly love. This is a turning point for the princess industry as it features independent females who do not rely on romantic love, but rather familial love.
The film industry has created the conventional gender roles of society into their movies. A majority of films have supported some of the male and female stereotypes. In the history of the film industry, the role of men is primarily that of the stereotypical working class man or hero, while the roles of women are primarily portrayed as being somewhat inferior to men. In the 1930s through the 1970s, men held the leading roles in films while women played smaller roles. In terms of jobs, women were given mostly family roles and rarely were shown outside of their homes, while men had successful careers and did many activities outside of home. “Women were shown doing housework and men were the beneficiaries of their work” (“Women’s roles in the
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