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“Miss Representation” is a film released in January 2011, which shows the various ways the media represent women. In the short trailer it starts by showing quotes, various statistics, and input of various influential women, on how women are misrepresented in our society. Some statistics include on how women are vastly outnumbered by men in leading positions in the workplace and in government. It also claims that the media only uses women’s sexualized image for money, not because it is what consumers want to see in advertisements. For example, in a video explaining oversexualizing in young children Geena Davis comments, “…in G-rated animated films the female characters wear the same amount of sexually revealing

in the way women are portrayed in modern culture and society. The documentary forces us to

Women often appear with glamorous image on advertisements, movies. However, there are also a lot of pictures to make women soured and routine such as women in the party, velvet erotic games, etc. By taking advantage of beautiful pictures, sexy women in the media seems to make the value of women become simply. People have acknowledging that women typically only have to dep, sexy, attractive, and space for recreation. Indeed, they hardly enhance the value of women. I am really shocked to find that most of social media is making people less interested in the intelligence, curved bar, and a lot of good things that women had not simply outward beauty. The media just give people that the public wants to. The film really makes the viewer think about the true value of women in the media and society. In addition, the film effectively appeals to the audience’s emotions and empathy. Throughout the film, the writer mentions her unborn daughter and her fear of whether her daughter “could grow up to be emotionally healthy and fulfilled given our moder culture.” She mentions that becoming pregnant and discovering her child was a girl is the reason she started looking to make a change in the way society and media sees women. This is an appeal to anyone who has a daughter or wants to have a daughter. They hope that people will want to make changes, just like the narrator did, for the future of the

As explained in Judith Lorber’s excerpt from “‘Night To His Day’: The Social Construction of Gender”, gender is a socially constructed concept that everyone unconsciously adheres to (Lorber). As a socially constructed concept, representations of gender roles can reinforce or challenge the stereotypical images. In Killing Us Softly 4, Jean Kilbourne analyzed the advertisement industry’s representation of women and argued that the media plays a huge role in shaping gender formations (Kilbourne). Although objectification of women is still a prevalent issue, Kilbourne acknowledged that there are efforts nowadays that challenges the unrealistic representations of women and femininity (Kilbourne). Inspired partly by Killing Us Softly 4, the project is my way to reflect on how the Disney movies I had watched as I grow up represented gender.

“Miss Representation” is a documentary film in 2011 which is made by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Messages in the film have implicit meanings that women need and want to be positive role models and have their interests in social and life. Miss Representation is a film about how media portrays women in society. The trailer for “Miss Representation” is eight minutes and 52 seconds long, so it gives a lot of information overall the film. It is started with the quote “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any” and many news sentences about teenagers spend time for media which take attention of audiences. It’s like a real report because the film is on interwove interviews. In addition, the trailer has a lot of

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

Pathos is the first main effective element in Miss Representation to persuade the audiences to admit the gender power imbalance in the society. It focuses on the audience’s attention and appeals to the audience’s imagined sympathies. In other words, it can be an emotional influence of the narrator or speaker on the audience. Its purpose is to create and increase the emotional affection towards the viewers of the speech. Furthermore, there are various ways to attain an emotional reaction in the audiences in the documentary. At the beginning, the narrator talks about her unborn daughter and her fears for her child that the girl will grow up in an unfair society about gender power. The baby is her motivation to discover the way the world is running, and the impacts

Miss Representation is a documentary film by Jennifer Siebel Newsom who is a female directors. The movie is released by Girls Club Entertainment in 2011. Miss Representation, is the film, will reveal one of the reasons so terrible that shape people's thoughts about women from their early childhood to adulthood poetry. Jennifer Siebel Newsom effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation movie that mass media are distorting the image and lowering the value of the women through the use of credible statistics, series of interview, and her personal story.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom produced a film called “Miss Representation”. This film focuses on the pervasiveness and the persuasiveness of media in reinforcing gender stereotypes regarding roles, physical traits such as beauty and sexuality, and intangibles such as power and strength. This documentary’s main point is how the media portrays woman in society. To back up this clause, the documentary actually demeans women since “Women hold only 3% of clout positions in telecommunications, (…) and advertising” and “comprise only 16% of all writers, directors”. It exposes that women don’t have any position in the world. According to Caroline Heldman, when little girls and boys are seven years old, they have the same chance to be a president. However,

Miss Representation, the 2011 documentary about how the mainstream media depicts women, and how that depiction is partially responsible for the reason why so few women hold positions of power in the United States. Miss Representation provides refresher course in feminist politics, a reminder that, even as much progress as women have made, men still hold most positions of power in both politics and media. That things are unlikely to change until we reshape the minds of men and women in America. It is also focused on the sexualization of women in the media, and how women are objectified as sexual objects for men or targeted in the media and being fat shamed by tabloid magazines. While this is true, the film is biased because it is produced, written,

This again shows how powerful the media is, because it shaped us. And it is unconscious that the media is shaping us, shaping out how we thinks and react. “ Miss Representation” also wants us the audience to learn what media is, and the media are actually showing the audience something that people could never achieve. Such as sexy body, perfect body shapes or clear skin from media and posters. When girls and women saw it, it becomes a goal for them, but the truth is that it is not going to happen. It is because someone edits those perfect looking and bodies using Photoshop and other

The trailer of the documentary film “Miss Representation” produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom covers the topic of how media contributes to the undermining of women to hold influential positions and creating sexism. The trailer starts off with statistic facts about the time the average person spends on different types of media a day such as watching television, reading magazines, browsing the internet, etc. It follows with a claim that every type of media always sexualizes women, resulting in people to think that the only thing that matters about women is their looks. This is then backed by a couple of examples where media bashed on some of the famous women that achieved high political or social status. One of the extreme examples was how a Fox News’

Miss representation also features men and how the media persuades them to perceive women and their role in society a certain way. The digital age of America has greatly enhanced how deep culture digs into our personal lives by being omnipresent everywhere in our consumerist society. In almost every direction we focus our awareness into there is always an advert trying to win over your choices to persuade consumers to buy a specific product and most of the time advertisement use flaws in our values to persuade consumers to believe in their products. These advertisements (sometimes unknowingly to us) exploit our insecurities by claiming their product will fix it and many times it has to do with a women’s self-perception of themselves.

Application Paper # 1: Critical and Feminist Theories: Movie Miss Representation A society that demeans a group of its own strains the development of its people. Society pressures women because the media and their influential institutions of family, religion, and politics has condition people to treat women differently because of tradition, and misconceptions about their potential and their qualities. This piece will explore what caused women to be misrepresented, the views of theorists about the main forces playing in this issue, and the type of ideologies it has brought up.

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