The Representation Of Women 's Miss Representation

After watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part Two, I was able to see how gender roles both differ and remain the same in this movie. Although some gender stereotypes apply to the film, I think many characters defy the stigmas typically assigned to males and females. Strong female roles, such as Hermione Granger, Molly Weasley, Professor McGonagall, and Luna Lovegood, help portray sturdy independent women who take charge. Reflecting on this movie, even as a dedicated Harry Potter fan, I have always admired how female actors in the series have had “the brains” in tricky situations. After watching the movie, I saw themes of power feminism, stereotyping, and negative connotations of males who express emotion.

when we think women are the protagonist or the hero, the story ends up revolving around the man.

“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

In Hollywood film women 's roles have varied quiet considerably between genres, geographical placement, and period settings. These factors contribute to the different representations of women 's roles in the film they are present in. The roles are diverse going from the traditional maternal role to that of manipulative murderer. Women 's roles in movies can be almost equal to the male roles, and the co-stars are not given the majority of the acclaims just because they are male. Society has set certain standards that women are supposed to follow. The most common image of women is that they are very passive and try to avoid conflict in any situation. More and more in society women are breaking down the social barriers that confine them to their specific roles. The films Rear Window and Resident Evil show women in roles that are untraditional for our society. These two movies help to show how women are rebelling against social norms and that they are taking more active and aggressive roles. In film noir’s we can see women represented as the femme fatale, a woman whose mysterious and seductive charms leads men into compromising or dangerous situations. In action movies we see the heroine who is strong both physically and mentally, and has the ability to use weapons. Women seem to be more trapped than men because they are supposed to live up to society’s standards dealing with beauty and size, which are more physical characteristics. These specific guidelines have been set by

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

Our roles in traditional gender roles have created a good girl and bad girl image for the way women should act and a patriarchy for men, creating norms and rules that make it difficult for women to gain power and be looked at for the right things, rather than the wrong things.

How do you truly feel in today’s world? Do you feel comfortable living in your own skin knowing it is not what others truly expect? Society, the one thing to blame for our low self- esteem and low self-confidence. The documentary, “Miss Representation,” expressed the truth over the hardships faced in everyday life. It mainly focuses on the presentation of woman, the amount of degrading that is faced daily. Along with the documentary, there is a movement called, The Representation Project.

media within today’s society. That society is given false and misleading accounts of women and

After viewing Miss Representation, I was filled with anger, frustration, and sorrow at the discriminating portrayal of women highlighted by popular media and culture. I find this topic very thought provoking and realize that this topic is always going to be controversial and highly disputed. Women are often characterized in the media in roles traditionally given by society, portrayed as submissive and passive, mothers or sexual objects. The film paints the impact of mass media on the idea of “Ideal Beauty” for women, through movies, magazines, television shows and video games. The media has greatly impacted the thoughts and opinions, which is seen as the norm by societies where gender equality is far from reality. Miss Representation discusses the aspect of the female roles in politics and leadership. Our society is governed by the immense power of the mass media and the media has the potential to reverse this concept as it has imposed it. The current message that our young men and women receive is that a “woman’s value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader.” The whole idea of "Ideal Beauty" has numerous harmful outcomes. The film debates about how women have made great advances in leadership in the last few decades. It remarks how the United States is still 90th in the world for women in terms of nationwide legislatures, women hold only 3% of positions in mainstream media, and 65% of women and girls are

The first case study of my research into media representation is American documentary, “Miss Representation” , directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom (2011). The following review looks particularly at how the film links media representation to social attitudes, as well as the filmmaking techniques and forms helping to express these points. ! “Miss Representation” encompasses the key theme associated with my own research, that being the role of mainstream media in influencing public opinion towards particular social groups. The documentary’s focus is on the under-representation of women in the media, and the prevalence of limited and often disparaging portrayals of women.

The depiction of strong, independent, women with negative connotations is a problem that occurs even today in are countless movies , television shows, and books in which powerful or successful female characters characters are depicted as domineering, bossy, and catty. This proves to be a problem because sometimes in order to not come across as evil or nontraditional as in the Victorian female case, or catty and malicious in the more modern case, women feel constricted as to what they can say and do. They sometimes feel unable speak up against a group for what they think or believe in, they do not take the actions that they think they should, and they do not become the leaders they could be and they end up squandering their potential to bring about change. There is still a societal expectation for women to be passive and to just sit on the sidelines as men continue to lead in the homes, the businesses, and the countries and it will take more nontraditional, bossy, “new women” who do not care if others see her having and using her power as a negative trait to get rid those

“The media is the message and the messenger and increasingly a powerful one”. When I was younger, I would always hear or read about how the media corrupts and manipulates people, and after watching the film Miss Representation which was written and produced by Jennifer Siebel I have become more aware of how biased the media is towards women and how women are misportrayed in the media. In the film there are many examples of how women are degraded in the media and misrepresented due to the media’s/male's perspective. The Portrayal of women in the media is causing young women to think that they have to measure up to the media’s expectations and look a certain way to be somebody and this makes me sad and upset.

In instances where women are depicted holding a position of power, such as Sandra Bullock in The Proposal (2009) and Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), they tend to be fiercely career-driven, detached and insensitive. This implies that in order for a woman to

Laura Mulvey claims a female in film is two things: An erotic object for the characters within the narrative to view and an erotic object for the spectators in the cinema to view. Schumer takes this idea and reverses it, truly changing the way we view film. She puts female voice first so it is no longer just an object of the male gaze, it is one of it’s own. She openly mocks stereotypes and breaks free of gender roles. When watching her show “You’re seduced by Schumer’s slutty, silly, superficial archetype, and while you’re doubled over in laughter, the message sinks its teeth in” (Sadaf Ahsan, 2015. N.P). Schumer is a hilarious under-cover feminist, which means she attacks these gender role issues and Male Gaze issues with comedy and satire, to make viewers laugh but also understand just how absurd the media can be when it comes to portraying women. The film industry needs the role of women to succeed, but usually put the second the man, always in the serving position. Movies such as Trainwreck, put women in the power position, where they have more say and can start to be viewed as equals to men, with the same mind set, instead of there just to be “hot”. Continuing forward,

“As men beat, rape, psychoanalyse and steal from (mentally unstable, handicapped, or martyred) female protagonists, their helpless response reiterates negative stereotypes of the passive woman.” The next step in female representation in film is not to represent men that are abusive in nature. It is to represent women who are strong, complex, and in control of their sexuality. The implication made by multiple male directors that they are more qualified to communicate the complexities of female sexuality in a film is bizarre, and male directors should examine films like ‘A Soap’ and ‘Se Min Kjole,' if they intend on doing so.