The test is as followed: two women, who are given names, must converse with each other about anything excluding a man. Surprisingly many movies throughout the history of film fail the Bechdel test. Currently in Hollywood the test highlights a problematic situation, the lack of equality regarding male and female roles in film and females constantly being portrayed as secondary characters. Many scholars have taken this into account, analyzing this issue and discussing potential reasoning for this
Entertainment Weekly Magazine Analysis Entertainment Weekly is a weekly periodical featuring entertainment related news stories. The magazine is notable for featuring film, television, book, and music reviews. Unlike some magazines targeting specific demographics, Entertainment Weekly appeals to a broad audience. Considering many people of all ages have an interest in the arts, the magazine appeals to both young and old readers. The magazine features celebrities of all ages, along with typically
Case Study – Marvel Entertainment Industry Analysis Comic Book Industry: The comic book industry contains comic or comicbooks that contain narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes often accompanied by dialog boxes. The first comic book appeared in the United States in 1933 usually appearing in the earlier newspapers comic prints. The reason for the name “comic book” came from the use of humor comic strips in newspapers. However most modern comic
grossing movies were based on comic books: Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man 3, The Avengers, Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen, The Dark Knight, and Spider-Man 3 (Lev-Ram, 2015). Today, studios have demonstrated confidence that this trend will continue. For example, movies set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are scheduled out until at least 2019, with Inhumans set for release in June of that year (Marvel, 2015). Film revenue is only part of the profit equation. A successful blockbuster superhero
to include short films and TV series. As the following, this essay wills analysis the concept of genres with Marvel superheroes movies as an example. Genre is an ambiguous term in movies, because the nature of genre has no restriction, a movie can be involved with numbers of features from multiple “genres”, however, Genre become accessible with criticism, consumption and production. As Schatz, T. (1981) notes that “the nature of film production and consumption, identifying film genres scarcely involves
Thor had been the most popular super hero film with respect to the critical aspects. This film had been associated to the presence and control of a mythical God, Thor. This was initiated in 1962 in Marvel and now it had been dependent upon the legendary Norse God of thunder. This is related to the Marvel comic and this character had become the member of The Avengers, accompanied by Iron Man and Captain America. Critical Analysis of Thor Film Chris Hemsworth had been seen in the basic character
greatly in the last 20 years alone to accommodate the changing role of women in society.’ This chapter seeks to explore the validity of this statement through content analysis of top-grossing feature films from the 1950s to the present day to determine whether ideals surrounding love and gender roles have been deconstructed in film over time. The second wave feminist movement challenged the traditional roles of women’s rights and campaigned for legal and social equality for women which proved to
Many comic books that are made into films have men playing the key roles, yet some comic books adapted to the big screen have female’s playing roles of importance. Since these movies are mainly guided for the viewing of men, the female characters are typically very attractive. In The Avengers: Age of Ultron, one of its main characters is Black Widow, played by actress Scarlett Johansson. In Richard J. Gray II’s article titled “Vivacious Vixens and Scintillating Super Hotties” he created a definition
bestseller” (Adorno and Horkheimer) this attitude can be seen by simply observing the Avengers, Spider-man and Transformers franchises. These types of movies are given top priority at movie studios simply because they are movies with large target audiences and the movie studios know that they will bring in mass amounts of profits. These types of movies often lack substance of any kind for example take the Avengers franchise, the movie itself has very little plot or characterization but it is still
Captain America: Civil War Analysis Directors Joe and Anthony Russo are quite underrated in terms of popularity of directors, their most memorable films being Captain America: The Winter Soldier, You, me and Dupree, and Welcome to Collinwood. So for the most part the pair of sibling directors are unheard of, or perhaps under appreciated. This seems to be a changing case, as the pair have been selected by Marvel Studios to direct their coming Infinity Wars movies. The Russo brothers have established