Summary Of Jemina Lewis Memo Hollywood

The issue of female representation in Hollywood is one of the biggest issues in the film industry. Sexism, discrimination, and a lack of jobs for female filmmakers has been a problem in Hollywood since its early days, and recently this problem has been analyzed using many different genres. The Women of Hollywood Speak Out is an editorial written by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. It is about difficulty for female filmmakers to break out and direct big budget films for Hollywood. Celluloid Ceilings: Women Directors Speak Out is a video created by Bloomberg about the issues with sexism and discrimination that female filmmakers have faced. These two pieces will be compared to discover how this topic can be discussed using different genres

Stephan Babich 's blog post entitled, "The Fall of the Female Protagonist in Kids Movies", and Richard Lawson and Jen Doll 's article, "The Lies Hollywood Told Us: Love and Romance Edition”, are rhetorical arguments that attempt to support a notion about an explicit aspect of motion-picture theatre. In Babich 's post, he writes about how women are hardly ever the protagonist in kid 's movies. The goal of his argument is to persuade avid animation movie watchers that future films should have a female playing the leading role. The main idea of Lawrence and Doll 's article is to convince men and women who frequently watch romance movies that they should not expect the romantic situations and endings that Hollywood

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

In the article “Opinion: ‘Black Panther’ gives me a personal reason to cheer for a new superhero,” it states, “For decades, superheroes like Batman and Wonder Woman have come to symbolize honor, courage, and bravery. In those same decades, blackness has not been part of the picture. African-Americans have been underrepresented not only in Hollywood but in the superhero/sci-fi/fantasy genre.” This excerpt conveys the importance of representing people who have not been represented enough. Making more films about the underrepresented will open up new ideas that will change Hollywood and how people perceive them.

Another guilty party in the effort to maintain women to lower status is American pop culture, which predominantly portrays women as being nothing more than sex objects. This is only relevant in that it illustrates how "backlash" does not only apply on a government level, but also in entertainment. The younger generations (children through 18 years old, mostly) are far more influenced by pop culture than they are by the government. The messages conveyed by the industry hit at a rather impressionable age. Faludi only touched on this aspect, noting that the television and films generally portray career women as being high-strung and unwed. Furthermore, popular novels show these women as being bitter spinsters whom practically beg for marriage. In this all-too subtle way, the media mocks the independent woman. Rarely are happily married, working women featured. The film industry fails to equally represent females at all. In 2002, 77% of protagonists were males in their 30s and 40s. The mere 16% of characters whom are female are portrayed primarily in their 20s and 30s. Women over 40 accounted for 9% of all

Superman does not have to prove to anyone he is ready to be a superhero whereas Wonder Woman has to prove herself first before being allowed to be a superhero. In addition, O’Reilly’s article talks about how Wonder Woman gets punished for rebelling against an authority figure while a male computer genius is praised by his superiors for showing strength and resolve against their wishes. Popular children’s entertainment also demonstrates how females are treated as found in the article The Smurfette Principle. The basic premise behind this article is that fact that in children’s movies and television shows, boys take a more central role while girls are stuck at the periphery.

Many of these filmmakers, through the feminist movement, have taken Hollywood by storm. There are many individuals that believe the feminist movement is a woman’s movement — to further the female agenda — and while, it is true

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,

In addition, we will explore the context in which the members of the group communicate with their intended audience using mass communication. The last part will try to examine the recent changes in the comic-book world in regard to giving the traditional male superhero role to a female lead and what changes might it bring forth by breaking some of the female gender stereotypes and norms.

As a child of the late 70’s with little interest in athletics or intellectual pursuits, I spent a large amount of my childhood, adolescence, and much of adulthood steeped in pop-culture (I’m losing touch with it the older I get); hence, popular-culture is very often my point of origin when examining how we, as a society, function in terms of representation. For the purpose of this brief response I will examine how the female functions in one of my generation’s most beloved films, 1989’s Batman, directed by Tim Burton. The character of Vicki Vale, played by Kim Basinger, may at first seem to be a positive female character: she is a successful photo journalist, and…and…and, well, this is where the problem begins. Beyond the superficiality of

The Representation of Women in Pretty Woman, Thelma and Louise, and Hollywood in General In this piece of coursework I will be writing an essay on how women are represented in media in general and also in the films ‘Pretty Woman’ and ‘Thelma and Louise.’ I will also be writing about how films usually use stereotypes which gives a judgement of a type of person or a group of people which may not true.

Frequently, most superheroes in cinema are portrayed by male characters rather than women, creating a distinction between gender roles. Indeed, through the passage, “These results may suggest to viewers that women are less important, knowledgeable, and capable than men – and less likely to be a hero” (Miller et. al) women are much less likely to be featured as the hero within the film, and more likely to be featured as the “damsel in distress” of the story. Furthermore, women are much more likely to be depicted in a sexualized fashion, even when displayed in the role of hero. This feature of women with a lack of dominance defies feminism, as they lack roles in superhero films and they are portrayed with the sole purpose of boasting

Filmmakers use traditional gender stereotypes to produce characters audiences can easily identify with by portraying conventional images of a person with identifiable characteristics. In previous years, the dominant representation of a women in film has been the passive, subjugated protagonist. However, through the development of female empowerment and added feminist representations of film, the female heroine transformed to become strong and independent women in her own right, as an individual character.

I commend the authors who stick their neck out on the line to express themselves in a creative way. A way in which attracts and pulls the reader in, possess them to enjoy the book. A book that’s not only a comic and is a good read, but as a deep meaning to it. The comic books talks about controversial topics that nobody else dears to talk about or express their own opinion on. The most common superhero that stars in many comic books, Wonder Woman has a secret; and a deeper mean than what is perceived. She’s the iconic image of women’s suffrage and rights. “Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of women who, I believe, should rule the world” (Lepore pg 2) Wonder Woman conveys the strength, courage and bravery women had to

With the recent release of Wonder Woman directed by Patty Jenkins, many people have called into question how well Wonder Woman—otherwise known as Diana in the movie—represents a positive image or inspirational figure for women and young girls in today’s society. One of these people is Zoe Heller, who in turn wrote the article “God’s Gift to Men”, which talks not only about the movie, but also takes an extremely deep look at how well they made Diana into an inspirational figure. I believe that Heller not only over-analyzed the movie, but also took it too close to heart in a world where we could use something meant to take our minds off the serious issues at hand.