Wonder Woman Poster

The poster was first introduced to the public by J. Howard Miller in 1942 for an ad agency that was commissioned by the Westinghouse Power Company. The poster was one of many other commissioned posters to aim at boosting morale amongst both women and men employees. This project was also aimed to convey the American ideology of hard work, patriotism, and everyone’s necessary war effort, regardless of sex. However this poster, became more than that and was adopted as a symbol of the feminist movement of the 1980’s as well as modern symbol of female empowerment. ("Ask HISTORY: Rosie the Riveter Video.")

This is a representation of the coldness of the character that is behind the window, and is blurred within the fog. The use of mise-en-scene is also used in the background that you can see behind the window which is of a forest. This is determined by the clustered trees that are crowded behind the character at the front. This is a cliche in horror films as it is a setting that a lot of horror films use, as a forest is a place that has a creepy atmosphere when dark and is a vulnerable place to be, as it is unrecognizable to you. The use of lighting is used to silhouette the character, this makes her the main focus of attraction. It also blocks out any view of anything else behind them and therefore forcing the viewer to look at the character. This is effective in asserting the audience that this is a horror film.The last use of mise-en-scene that is used in order to make it more bright and to make it stand out is the use of costume. The use of costume isn't fully focused on this poster but it is helpful in finishing off the full image of the atmosphere that it is trying to create. The T-shirt is dirty and torn, which can represent a struggle that it took for the character to come this way.

The movie poster that I have chosen is Maleficent, produced by Walt Disney and is released in year 2014. Movie poster is very important as it is considered as an advertisement for a particular movie. With containing the powerful visual elements of the movie such as the famous actors, movie title and attractive image, it can easily grab the audience’s attention. Some of the movie posters may include the main actor’s name as well. These visuals are vital to convey impactful messages to the audience and persuade them to watch. Maleficent is an example of using actress’s name to attract audience. The main actress name, Angelina Jolie is written in an elegant and simple black capital letters in serif typeface and is placed in upper part of the poster.

In the movie of The Conjuring, in certain instances it foreshadows a witch which is considered as a dark presence. This movie poster is effective in introducing or raising awareness of the way is being presented by telling the readers that this film is based on a true story and by showing readers that it will have a mysterious person in search. In the movie, there is a new family of seven, five daughters and their pet dog that moves into an unfrequented farmhouse which took place in the '70s. Strange things have been happening to the house as well with the family, they call investigators to look at the house to find out why weird things have been happening. The reason for the dark presence, appearance in the house is because someone had hung themselves at the house so unfortunately the house is haunted without the new family members being aware of it. The poster for the movie The Conjuring foreshadows a mysterious dark presence not seen by everyone through the specific placement of the shadow, the color scheme, composition and spatial order.

Clearly, this poster supports the war efforts by encouraging the people of Canada to refrain from talking about war, as spies that are associated with enemy countries could listen to their conversations relating to war, and the spies could implement this information into their own war plans. Therefore, this is a major issue that concerns Canada as Canadian civilians could leak out unwanted knowledge to the enemy countries. The historical knowledge that the viewer must need to fully interpret my poster would be the Canadian government feared sections of their war plan could leak into the hands of the enemy. As a result, the government passed the War Measures Act, which granted them full control over the lives of all men and women of Canada.

This was a War bond propaganda during the Second World War. This considered to be one of the most diverse categories due to the large range in audience that they were trying to target. Women were used in war bond propaganda in the United States of America during the Second World War. To encourage those on the home front to buy more war bonds. They used women on the propaganda to inspire both men and women to buy bonds. This poster is also specifically at women who were now in charge of their own finances since many of their husbands had left for war. These posters showed American women what was expected of them and it’s taking an emotional appeal to motivate others to buy war bonds.

The image is about women being recruited as nurse to help the country. I choose this propaganda image for the reasons of it opens opportunities for women to have active role in the country and to recognize the nurse profession. Moreover, this poster for my opinion is the start of our government considering women to be more than a housewife they enlisted them same in workforce. “A nurse is pictured holding a child of toddler age and in the background ancient warriors can be seen riding on horses. The picture bears resemblance to traditional paintings of the Virgin Mary holding her son Jesus Christ. The poster’s name even implies that the American nurse can be placed on the same level, spiritual or otherwise, as the Mother of Christ.”(McFadden,

The race of the woman grabs the attention of the audience even more.  She is white, most likely American.  At this time many states still haven’t legalized interracial marriage, and due to the culture of objectifying women which was very strong in America at this time, these posters almost in a way

To the left is an advertising poster for the film, depicting a menacing looking Jew. This can also refer back to the early stage four in the anti-Semitic children’s books on the “poisonous Jew.”

The poster “We Can Do It” iconizes wartime female patriotism, encouraging women to work in defense industry left by enlisted males and suggesting that females are not isolated from total wars. However, women’s “intrusion” into the long-assumed male spaces began much earlier than the birth of that poster. Judith Giesberg’s Army at Home demonstrates that the Civil War allowed American women to traverse the social boundaries that reserved wars for males and home for females. Instead, marginalized working-class, rural, minority, or immigrant women actively defied such gender demarcation by replacing males in fields and arsenals, confronting state officials in acquiring resources, joining political activities on streets, or travelling to battlefields to retrieve their loved ones’ bodies (9-10). Challenging the established historiography assuming that only northern middle-class white had political influence and war protests or disruption of the authorities exclusively belonged to the lower class females in the Confederacy, Giesberg innovatively argued that despite spatially distant from battlefields, the long-ignored northern women were actively engaged in politics out of their wartime ordeals (12). She stresses that as the antebellum genderized spaces collapsed during the war, women “produced spaces where they ceased being the object of and became its subjects” (13). The marginalized northern females thus redefined the lines separating genders ---home versus politics and wars.

A-1 Pictures created this poster in order to attract people who are interested in watching genres that are the action-fantasy. To be able to portray the action genre, the background is drawn that displayed some sort of conflict. The background displayed a dead tree, ashes, burning building, and embers flying around. The dead tree signified that the land itself was dying. The burning buildings signify the destruction of humanity. The ashes are covering most of the poster which gives the idea that the land has been burning for a long time. With all the destruction on the background, the main focus of the poster is the picture of two determined and strong looking characters. Since the characters looks determined and strong while there is chaos all around them, the audience can tell that the story will not be focused on the hardships of war but on the fights that happen in battle.

The Disney PIXAR Brave (2012) creates the animated film poster to form a possible adventurous quest featuring the fiery nature teen attracting the audience in view of the intense and mysterious contents. Examining the organized positioning, vivid use of color, symbolism, and text promoting to viewers a glance of the determined battle to ”Change Your Fate” and experience the action fought customs for an tremendous outcome.

With this advantage, Wonder Woman is confident to save the world by herself and thus confident to makes her own decisions to takes actions without the restrictions from other male characters (Wonder Woman, 2017). These scenes echoes feminism by showing that women are powerful enough to be independent from men and have the abilities to accomplish what men could not. Another important scenes in the movie are the Amazon Island scenes. In these scenes, Wonder Woman leaves her peaceful homeland to enter the unknown world and face the brutal war. The choice Wonder Woman makes is what gives her a chance to transform—from Princess Diana of Themyscira to Wonder Woman of America. The transformation Wonder Woman experienced matches feminism theory about the transformation of “private” to “public” for women (Snyder, 2008, Pg.175). The transformations Wonder Woman goes through indicates that women should not be restrict to stay at the private home but can actively participate in the public

The Moana movie poster in itself is a perfect example of challenging gender expectations. Through the look at the target audience, color, and the context of the poster, one can better understand how Moana challenges

Children always looking for a positive role model to have, and many end up choosing superheroes they see in their favorite comic books or ones they have seen in the media. Since children are so easily affected by things they see in their childhood, having discriminatory elements in these influential characters may be problematic. “The Wonder Woman Precedent: Female (Super) Heroism on Trial” written by Julie D. O’Reilly, was published in the Journal of American Culture in 2005. O’Reilly is a professor of communication and women and gender at Heidelberg University. In “The Wonder Woman Precedent”, she writes about the hardships that female superheroes in the media must face that male superheroes do not go