Logos In Newson's Miss Representation

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

Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary, Miss Representation, shows that the media’s impact on the American discourse of women’s bodies, women in power, and the same standards of what women should be. Newsom effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that how mainstream media contributes to the misrepresentation of women in influential positions by having limited portrayals of women through the use of interviews from influential people, several statistics, and appealing to emotional sense.

The Miss Representation documentary film by Jennifer Newsom explores how media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions. This message is portrayed by delivering content through media and technology as well as advertising partial and/or often degrading interpretations of women. The consequences are becoming more and more dreadful. In today’s world, composed of a million stations, people will tend to do more and more shocking things to break through the crowds. They resort to violent, sexually offensive, or demeaning images. Jean Kilbourne, EdD, filmmaker, Killing Us Softly Author and Senior Scholar Wellesley Center’s for Women states, that “it creates a climate in which

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.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch employs logos and diction in his closing argument to the jury and people of Maycomb in order to persuade them to see beyond their prejudice and free Tom Robinson.

In Miss Representation film, Jennifer Siebel Newson, an American filmmaker and actress, argues the impact of media on women that they are not valued as whole human being. This destructive problem is causing the hypersexuality and the lack of women in politics. The purpose of the documentary is admitting to an audience who may or may not understand well this issue to be open-minded and must to take action to equalize the social gender stratification. Newson uses the process of rhetorical analysis while creating and developing her argument Pathos, Ethos, and Logos are three main effective elements in Miss Representation to persuade the audiences to admit the gender power imbalance in the society.

There are many ways how to get your point across, whether it be by telling a story or stating facts or simply showing a picture. When I analyzed the documentary “Miss Representation” The speaker did great in making this serious issue very informative and interesting for the intended audience. The main argument of this documentary is that the speaker wants to make sense of the women equality issue to her daughter and her generation. The video is very well structured and educational because the way the speaker used her personal experiences, other people in the video’s experiences and the way images and clips were used to describe and give examples of how women are wrongfully being treated in the media.

The film Miss Representation (2011) directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom explores an alarming and downplayed problem that is reoccurring in media that overlaps into the life of many girls and women. The media drills sexualized images along with “ideal” characteristics of how women should be; youthful, skinny, and beautiful with a strong sex appeal. Women are under constant scrutiny whether they are in powerful positions such as Hillary Clinton or playing a sexualized character in a movie like Jessica Simpson. Clinton and Simpson receive different types of sexist comments but nonetheless offensive and degrading.

Can you imagine what females could accomplish if they spent as much time volunteering to local charities as they did worrying about their physical appearance? So many dreams, goals, and aspirations are thrown away because of something as simple as low self-esteem. The film Miss Representation focuses on that exact social issue. Various people come together in this documentary to tackle the matter of gender stereotyping through the media. We will cover gender stereotypes, the role media plays in shaping them, and what can be done.

This epidemic is also an issue for our youth, particularly in young girls. "50% of girls between the ages of 11 and 13 see themselves as

It will argue that inequalities exist between men and women within society, and this is enforced through the communicated messages sent via media. It will take the standpoint that gender equality in the media would mean an equal representation of both sexes with a diversity of male and female roles.

Researchers have discovered that “ongoing exposure to certain ideas can shape and distort our perceptions on reality.” (Mintz 2007) Because young girls are subjected to a constant display of beautiful people in the media, they have developed a negative body image of themselves. Those who have a negative body image perceive their body as being unattractive or even hideous compared to others, while those with a positive body image will see themselves as attractive, or will at least accept themselves and be comfortable in their own skin. During adolescence, negative body image is especially harmful because of the quick changes both physically and mentally occurring during puberty. Also, young girls are becoming more and more exposed to the media and the media keeps getting more and more provocative. Young girls are looking to women with unrealistic body shapes as role models. It’s hard to find, in today’s media, a “normal” looking

Teenage girls try to emulate models. In a research, Mundell finds out that ten years old girls were not satisfied with their body image after watching a video by Britney Spears (2002, p.1). Similar to that, dissatisfaction with the body image reflects

Contrary to popular believe, gender is referred to the attitudes, behaviours and emotions linked with a specific sexual group. There are two dominant perspectives that illustrate two different viewpoints of gender inequality. The functionalist perspective, by Talcott Parsons, believed that both men and women possess specific qualities that make them excellent at specific events, and these qualities are not interchangeable (Brym, 2014). The Marxist-Feminist perspective; however, viewed qualities for men and women as to being dependent on social conditions rather than being inherited (2014). In order to further illustrate the presence of gender inequality in the present society; the film Missrepresentation, by Jennifer Newsom reveals the

percent worried about their bodies, "half of girls aged eight to 12 want to look like the women