Kubrick And Lynch On The Patriarchy

A Clockwork Orange is told from the first person viewpoint of a young teenage thug named Alex. This viewpoint along with the futuristic street language and graphic violence is very effective at immersing the reader in a world where lawlessness is a way of life. There is plenty of violence and sex but generally it’s not too graphic.

Renowned feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey, explores how classic Hollywood cinema is shown through a masculine perspective that fetishisizes women as objects of desire. This perspective is also known as the “male gaze”, which creates a voyeuristic and scopophilic layer to the viewing of film. According to Mulvey, “in their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness.” One of the staples of classic Hollywood cinema is women consistently being put or made into a visually erotic role for both the male characters on screen, and the audience. This staple is of course found in the

Dr. Strangelove: Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. – A textual and contextual analysis

Being a woman in today's society, I am aware of the inequality that we still face today. "Makers: Women Who Make America" opened my eyes to how feminism began and how the movement got its bearings. When Shirley Chisholm said, "I have been more discriminated against as a women than an African American," it was extremely eye opening to how serious of an issue it had become. I was amazed to learn about how the divorce rates exploded when feminism began. To me, it sounds ridiculous that a man could not comprehend how his wife deserved to have the same rights and to be able to do things besides the common women household chores. "Makers: Women Who Make America" was an eye opening film that demonstrated how birth control, women's health care and abortion played a major contribution to the women's movement. Prior to

A patriarchal society dominated the early years in Afghanistan. This society is not also apparent in modern America. Women may not be treated as badly, but are still not treated equally. For example, women do not necessarily get paid the same as men even when they do the same job. In fact, America has never even had a woman president.

A question that proficient critiques ask themselves is this: How do documentary directors purposely evoke certain emotions within their key scenes? It is clearly apparent that viewers are positioned to believe Moore’s point of view due to his clever use of persuasive techniques. One major scene that has the tendency to evoke the emotions of carelessness and insensitiveness is the ‘What a Wonderful World’ sequence.

Starting off with a Lighter tone the Critic A. O. Scott, writing for the New York Times, had Found the film to be a delight. He focused on the entertainment that the film provided to the viewer and the continued joy that one may feel after the fact. Scott’s Review scraped the top of the barrel he represents the majority of people of whom merely enter the theater to lose themselves in the story and perhaps forget something in the process. Scott praises the film for its dark comedy and use of gore that both enthralled and revolted his senses. “It may seem strange that I am praising a work of such unremitting savagery. I confess that I’m a little startled myself, but it’s

“I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free,” says Cheyl Strayed from the film Wild. Both the films, Wild and Thelma & Louise present women pushing themselves and going out of their norm to find themselves. Cheryl from the Wild challenges herself by hiking a 1,100 mile trail from the border of Mexico all the way up to the border of Canada. Thelma and Louise from the film Thelma & Louise are on the run after shooting a man who tried to assault and rape one of them. Thelma and Louise decided to live and enjoy every moment they can with each other while they can. Both films are strong feminist films who break the societal boundaries and stereotypical roles of women.

Finally, Newsom effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that the media causes the gender power imbalance in the society through the use of Toulmin System of Logic. All of the components are suitably organized into the Toulmin System of Logic. The filmmaker uses this system as the model to recognize, analyze, and construct her logical argument smoothly. Moreover, based on the guide of the system, the audience can easily break down the argument of the film into different aspects. There is a list of dissimilar aspects in the documentary, such as claim, reason, evidence, warrant, backing, and qualifier. The first facet is claim, which states that the media has impacts on the women’s values. The second part is reason, which means

Rape is not just an issue in the military but; gender discrimination is one as well. This

“I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better-and maybe not that much better after all.” In “Why We Crave Horror Movies” the author Stephen King argues that everyone is a “potential lyncher.” I enjoy an occasional horror film that is well made. Most horror films are not that scary. Horror films tend to be low quality and sometimes they are garbage. I have seen my share of lousy horror films. I do watch horror films to be entertained and I enjoy the suspense. Although I appreciate some horror films I disagree with Steven King’s bold statements, and I agree with some of his other statements. In Steven Kings thesis: “if we share a brotherhood of man, then we also share an insanity of man.”

The experiences and beliefs mirrored from Intersectional Feminism and Hollywood cinema illustrate how American Culture impacts society. Social media continuously revolutionizes the world through ways people communicate on the world-wide web. The power of this tool share both benefits and negative consequences that further encourage American society to strive for Equality and overcome Group Superiority. Social media advances Intersectional Feminism as an expandable way to promote female empowerment of all diverse backgrounds. On the contrary, social media also give freewill to voice topical issues such as the discrepancies with the lack of diversity in Hollywood cinema. Overall, core values help guide behavior and action based on groups in and

The Screwball comedy is a film genre that found its way onto the screens in the early 1930s and lasted till the early 1940s. They were a consequence of the newly adapted censorship law in 1934 that restricted addressing adult content on screen. They therefore incorporated more comedic and creative ways of symbolizing topics such as sex and homosexuality. Screwball comedies were mainly based on plots that had conflict between social classes as their many premise and always had a happy ending which was almost always marriage. This consistent maintenance of the status quo of marriage is a major aspect of feminism depicted in screwball comedies (Heather 26). While advocating for marriage, screwball comedies highlighted the shift in the

Throughout motion picture history, women have experienced more transition in their roles, as a result of changing societal norms, than any other class. At first, both society and the movie industry preached that women should be dependent on men and remain in the home, in order to guarantee stability in the community and the family. As time passed and attitudes changed, women were beginning to be depicted as strong willed, independent minded characters, who were eager to break away from convention. The genre of the crime film represents such a change in the roles handed to women. Two films that can be contrasted, in order to support this view, are: The Public Enemy by William Wellman (1931) and Bonnie

It shows roughly 12,000 acts of violence, murder and rape being the most portrayed, and over 1,000 studies guarantee that too much screen time for boys increases their aggressive behavior. Such as the numerous crimes inspired by Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. If the various murders of teenage boys and the assault of a woman by a man dressed as a droog were not disturbing enough, Kubrick indefinitely took it off the market after a gang rape was conducted