Miss Representation Project

The film is called the Urgency of Intersectionality by a speaker named Kimberle Crenshaw. The director has done a fantastic job with this film I find it very powerful and touching. I feel like this film is a part of a movement because at the beginning of this film Kimberle Crenshaw asked the audience to stand up, and she said to stand up if anyone in the audience know who these people are. Then she started to naming each individual who were African-American males who were the victims of police brutality. As she spoke on she then proceeded to name the African-American women who were also victims of police brutality for the past two years. Then the audience began to sit down.

The film portrayed an important message and brought awareness to an issue that is normally overlooked. It also incorporated three different theories,Structural Functionalism, Conflict, and Symbolic Interactionist, and brought real life examples to them. Structural Functionalist showed not all theories can work effectively and that in some societies this hypothesis does not apply. Next, the Conflict theory displayed that no matter where you go, there are groups in society that will always be fighting against each other for a scarce item. Finally, the Symbolic Interactionist theory showed that all groups in societies work with one another and that experiences can change the way that reality is perceived and affect the choices that are made by these encounters. The video also implicated the science of sociology in the way that the information was presented and how the clip was laid out. This movie about a small town along the Appalachian mountains is so much more than just a video for entertainment. It is about helping bring awareness to a horrible situation and associating theories of sociology while doing

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

“Miss Representation” is a documentary film that is made by Jennifer Seibel Newsom. This film talks about many issues from the roles of females in politics, and the ways in which media negatively impacts women. The film examines how the media have contributed to the underrepresentation of women. Therefore, eventually, the film is persuading people to be open-minded, and study how media affects our perception, judgment, and behaviors. The targeted audience of this film is all people who live in America. People should be convinced to change their mind about stereotypes on women. Jennier effectively convinces the audience that the mainstream media has mainly contributed to the under-representation of women through the use of statements claimed

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

The film is centered on a group known as the Women’s Army. It is a group comprised of women who seek to eradicate the ever-present inequalities between males and females. They end up going on marches, networking with different radio shows and meeting together in order to find ways to educate women and the general public about the hypocritical nature of the government and its role in the social and economic status of women. In the beginning of the film we see men catcalling women as they walk down the street, harassing them while riding the subways, and even attempting to rape them in broad daylight. This highlights the impact of societies ideology about gender

Society was really under the microscope in this documentary and is put to the test. There were many different types of people seen in this documentary, a lot of them are free-spirited and wanting to start new beginnings. Even if they had their own struggles going on in their life they were willing to help no matter what. Dylan is the man who drove Joe to Chicago, he was just looking for a new start somewhere. There were also people like Fran who were just trying to get by in a crazy world, she has been called crazy so many times in her life she decided it’s just time to accept it. There are many people who are kind-hearted, such as the man who ran the organization that helped refugee children, Gina in the soup kitchen and Brittany, who runs Kids of Promise and accepted all the clothes on behalf of the “band of elves” that Joe got together. He also met a

Comparing America to todays society and society in the 1850’s, America has grown in the sense that there is less racism. America no longer has slavery, has laws against racism, and laws against sexism, however, America still has a lot work to do to fix the racism in America. After watching Slavery and the Making of America, volume three, Seeds of Destruction, and volume four, The Challenges of Freedom, comparing the society’s in todays society, and the society in the 1850s allows it to be compared fairly. The documentary talked about the first autobiography written a woman who was a slave, named Harriet Jacobs titled, Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl.

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

This film points out very good points. We are a generation that only cares about things that happen in front of us and that somehow affect us, but I believe that every generation has been this way. When black people were discriminated is this country, the people who were directly affected by it were the one who fought for equality. Back when I lived in the Dominican Republic, I felt that I didn’t know anything about the world, I only knew what I was told by other people in my community. There was not a way to figure it out by myself because I didn’t have the technology at my hand on those times. The role of technology in my generation is essential because is knowledge, you can find anything you want with it. I think that knowledge is understanding

In my opinion I believe that it is important to remain progressive when it comes to culture, media, and morally correct laws. Therefore, I found this documentary more interesting to watch, rather than upsetting. It was amazing to see how media and advertisement changed over time based on what was trending. Because this documentary is

In the film Miss Representation, Jennifer Siebel Newsom states that “we’re here for an instant in an eternity, and all that really matters is what we do with that time” (Miss Representation). This is a profound thought. The Earth has existed for billions of years, yet most people consider themselves lucky to live for 100 years. That’s a relatively insignificant amount of time. Our names won’t be remembered forever, but we have the capability of creating change that will last far beyond us.

This article relates to the documentary we read because it talks about women's rights. But that's not the only thing it has in common, this article discusses about how 53% of women are teenage girls think that domestic violence is okay and justified. Wild the documentary we watched in class talks about how women don't have the same learning opportunities as men do in this world Girls are sexually abused every day of their lives. As active participants in society we should be angry that women believe that there are lower than men in some sort of way or fashion. Just because a woman doesn't mean that they are not as smart as men or not capable of doing physical, and or heavy lifting jobs. The article and the documentary have in common that they

If this film were to be analyzed through a feminist theory which examines male- female relationships from the perspective of the powerful oppressing the powerless and the reactions to that oppression, there would be many inaccurate gaps. For example, the women in the film would be encouraged to pursue any career they wanted and would not be discouraged or doubted based on the outer image they present to the world. Male oppression would not be applied to this film if it was viewed through the lense of a feminist theory as well, because both genders would be presented as equals with the same academic potential and rigor. This film highlights the social problems that stem from the inequality of genders. These social problems reveal the aspects of society that a large number of people are concerned about and would like to change which would be gender norms and sexual objectification of individuals.

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