Scouts's Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse

The representation of the LGBT community in the film industry has long been a topic of much debate. In her article, “It Ain’t Easy Being Bisexual on TV,” Amy Zimmerman addresses this topic with specific interest on bisexual representation. By appealing to the logic of her audience, using an informal tone, and referring to relatable content, Zimmerman constructs an argument which persuades readers of The Daily Beast that the film industry is unfairly and inaccurately representing bisexuals. However, her argument holds little influence over those who are not movie fans or The Daily Beast readers.

There is a zombie apocalypse and you’re stranded by yourself in nowhere else but Vicksburg, Mississippi. How will I get food and water? How will I start a fire? How will I travel? How do I kill the zombies that are trying to kill me? These are just a few of the questions you will be asking yourself if this situation were to occur. People that are prepared for a zombie apocalypse would already have their primitive survival skills intact as well as effective signaling methods. They would be in decent physical shape. They would understand basic first aid, and would already have decided on the safe ways to travel to and from the city.

This genre is typically modern, perky and upbeat, but the common narrative in all of them is that it features a woman who is strong and she overcomes adversity to reach her goals. There is also a message of empowerment that also struggles with a romantic predicament and using comedy to poke fun at the male characters. Industries are still producing soppy romantic comedies for the female audience but the divide between the standard chick flick and romantic comedy is slowly disappearing. Similarly to the beginning of this essay it is evident that institutions are moving in the direction of women’s place in culture in relation to this film genre; women are usually shown as the super power since they are made to appeal to the female audience. However

They arrive in Las Vegas and spend the night drinking and getting drunk. When they wake up in the morning, they find it strange that they are the only people in the Lobby. To their horror, a Zombie attacks them. They learn that there’s been an outbreak of Zombies in Las Vegas and the town has

The main protagonist in the film is the deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes who has been shot and when he wakes up he finds himself in a post apocalyptic world in which zombies are everywhere. He gets out on a search for his wife and son and reunites with them later. He finds out that there are many survivors just like him who must fight each other and the zombies in order to survive.

The wide ranging harmful representations of women have now achieved a new level in popular culture. Every medium (television, movies, magazines, games) has the problems of their own of depicting women. Whereas there are various other issues related to the way women are repented for viewers, for the purposes of this essay it is useful to explore gender stereotypes and negative depiction of women in movies, which also include overly sexualized and unrealistic images in movies. All together these issues shore up the idea of portraying women negatively which results in erroneous representation of women by oneself and cultures as well. Movies are widely viewed medium around the globe and thus, have a huge effect on the way women perceive

Audiences of both genders are hardly immune to the commercial powers of oversexualization.”(Thompson,45). Many different genres of film have lot of sexual themes in their plot. Chick flick share this in common with other films. Hollywood know what make money in the movie industry and that is sex. In romantic comedies all the actor are some of the most beautiful people you ever seen. Looks matter so much in these films. Older films like sixteen candle touch themes like being insecure of one's body and coming it to someone else. It seems that the

There are approximately 9 million people living in the United States who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Of the 126 film releases by major studios (20th Century Fox, Lionsgate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Columbia, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Brothers, as well as films released by four major subsidiary studios) in 2015, only 22 of them contained characters who identified as LGBT. In other words, 82.5% of major studio releases failed to represent any of the LGBT U.S. population. The exclusion and/or marginalization of “the Other” has been the main focus over the course of this semester through various films and studies, showing an often one-sided narrative of “the Other”. We find at times, our films relying on stereotypes, which further the separation of minorities from a ruling white heteronormative society. Acknowledging film as a medium for socialization, it is important to monitor what is being constructed and how that is influencing how society views and thinks about a certain “subject”. I want to address the lack of representation of the LGBT community onscreen, but more specifically, the way in which the act of “gay sex” is constructed for its audience. For the purposes of this paper, I use the tv-show turned film Looking, because it is the most recent look into gay sex onscreen, to examine the messages it leaves behind. My hope, is to reflect upon these messages, and more deeply, delve into what

The reason for all the supplies is because if the zombies were to infect one of the citizens we could either amputate that part of their body or give then medicine. Another example would be if some of the citizens got the common cold then we would inject some medicine in them or give them pills to make them feel better. However, if a citizen comes to us with a serious disease that would be untreatable then we would have to give them to the zombies. We couldn’t risk that one citizen endangering the whole population. On the higher end maybe that disease citizen would infect the zombies and kill them off quickly.

The aforementioned study also found that G-rated movies between 1990 to 2005 were narrated by a total of 83% of males while females only provided 28% of total speaking parts - minor roles included. Interestingly, this period happened to introduce the least amount of ‘damsel in distress’ tropes, even having a female character save a male character in one instance. This leads to contending loyalties of women; we are torn between our want to be in media as much as men and our want to be portrayed in media as more than one-dimensional

In this research report I aim to explore the way in which gender roles have been represented in films through time and to analyse if the representation of each gender role has changed. More specifically, I would like this report to acknowledge, in particular, how women are portrayed throughout the film industry and I want to explore how these representations can affect the viewers of these films by the stereotypes that they create. Introduction The media hold an enormous amount of control and influence over society and the way in which the media chooses to portray each gender can have a massive impact on society and how they perceive and put pressure on each other to live up to these roles. Media is unconsciously filtered

As we drove down the deserted road we heard gun fire. I drove up a little further, and in the back of a large clearing, I noticed a group of several survivors open firing on a mass of about twenty biters, none of which had hit the ground. The crackle of gunfire continued to drift up towards us

In Martin and Kazyak’s article, the authors point out how children’s movies, which are very accessible and woven into children’s play and learning, are one of the ways society teaches heteronormativity to young people. They do this through a research study which examined the sexual and hetero romantic content in children’s G-rated films that were popular and came out in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. The authors discovered two main themes from this study. The first theme is that children’s movies create heteronormativity through portraying hetero romantic love as special and powerful, which can be seen in the dramatization of characters ‘falling in love’ and the portrayal of a romantic relationships being the ‘most important’ (Martin and Kayak,

Unrestrained female sexuality in popular media is regarded as something of a taboo. As a society, we are not used to the pleasure of women being portrayed on screen, despite our supposedly ‘equal’ society. Much of this is the inflection of sexism and the patriarchy, placed upon the minds of the masses, influencing the internalized discomfort of female sexuality. This, of course, does not apply towards male sexuality. Male sexuality is unrelenting and respected, even revered. These concepts of unrestrained sexuality, equal pleasure and lack of censoring have leached into one of the major sources of media in our society, which is the all encompassing film.

Audiences of both genders are hardly immune to the commercial powers of oversexualization.”(Thompson,45). Many different genres of film have sexual themes in their plot. Chick flick share this in common with other films. Hollywood knows what makes money in the movie industry and one the biggest is selling sex to the audience. In romantic comedies, all the actors are some of the most beautiful people you have ever seen. Looks matter so much in these films. Older films like Sixteen Candle touch themes like being insecure of one's body and