Critical Investigation = Are females in teen movies always seen as bimbos and objects? Why might this be?
Thompson, Denise, 2001, Radical Feminism Today, Denise Thompson. Page 36
"Pleasure and desire 'enable' the continuation of the social conditions of male supremacy"
This quote illustrates that pleasure and desire is an asset for a women as it attracts the male supremacy. This links to my critical investigation as it clearly states that women are shown in the media to look pesaurable and desirable for the male audience.
Jill, Nelmes, 1996, An Introduction To Film Studies, London, Jill Nelmes. Page 230 & 231
"Mulvey argues that identifcation is always with male, who is the pivot of the film,its hero, while the female is often seen as threat"
This quotation states that men in films are the back bone of the film, where as the representation of women are the distraction. This will inncorparate in my investigation as it describes the women representation of being a threat, and then I can gather texts where they have been threats and find out how they were a threat;sexual objects.
"Voyeurism and the desire to see the erotic and the forbidden, yet the desire is male - centred"
This quotation signifies that the desire for voyeurism and the erotic are male centred; a dominant male audience. This will link to my investigation as it is quoting that a male centred audience is again, being drawn in by the erotic representation of females.
"Mulvey argues that women has two roles in films: erotic object for the characters in the story and erotic object for the spectalor"
This quotation is a quote which Mulvey argued, stating that the representation of females are sexual objects either in the character of the film or for the audience. This will embody with my investigation as
"The exuasion of women as object, as provider of voyeuristic plesure will then free her from the narrow limits she has been allocated in cinema"
"Audience gains voyeuristic pleasure from watching a film"
Lehman and Luhr, Peter and Willam, 2003, Thinking About Media, Peter Lehman and Willam Luhr. Page 265
"Men and women are not represented equally in films"
"The sexual women is usually represented as dangerous to herself and /or men"
"Women are frequently represented is movies as being good, dutiful mothers, and wives or independant sexual beings"
"Polarization of women is often referred to as the mother/whore dichotomy, which implies that if women are not traditional mother figures, safely under the protection of a man, they are whores in spirit"
Thompson, Denise, 2001, Radical Feminism Today, Denise Thompson. Page 36
"Pleasure and desire 'enable' the continuation of the social conditions of male supremacy"
This quote illustrates that pleasure and desire is an asset for a women as it attracts the male supremacy. This links to my critical investigation as it clearly states that women are shown in the media to look pesaurable and desirable for the male audience.
Jill, Nelmes, 1996, An Introduction To Film Studies, London, Jill Nelmes. Page 230 & 231
"Mulvey argues that identifcation is always with male, who is the pivot of the film,its hero, while the female is often seen as threat"
This quotation states that men in films are the back bone of the film, where as the representation of women are the distraction. This will inncorparate in my investigation as it describes the women representation of being a threat, and then I can gather texts where they have been threats and find out how they were a threat;sexual objects.
"Voyeurism and the desire to see the erotic and the forbidden, yet the desire is male - centred"
This quotation signifies that the desire for voyeurism and the erotic are male centred; a dominant male audience. This will link to my investigation as it is quoting that a male centred audience is again, being drawn in by the erotic representation of females.
"Mulvey argues that women has two roles in films: erotic object for the characters in the story and erotic object for the spectalor"
This quotation is a quote which Mulvey argued, stating that the representation of females are sexual objects either in the character of the film or for the audience. This will embody with my investigation as
"The exuasion of women as object, as provider of voyeuristic plesure will then free her from the narrow limits she has been allocated in cinema"
"Audience gains voyeuristic pleasure from watching a film"
Lehman and Luhr, Peter and Willam, 2003, Thinking About Media, Peter Lehman and Willam Luhr. Page 265
"Men and women are not represented equally in films"
"The sexual women is usually represented as dangerous to herself and /or men"
"Women are frequently represented is movies as being good, dutiful mothers, and wives or independant sexual beings"
"Polarization of women is often referred to as the mother/whore dichotomy, which implies that if women are not traditional mother figures, safely under the protection of a man, they are whores in spirit"
Graham and Probert, Andrew and David, 2008, Advanced Media Studies Oxfordshire: Phillip Allan
"Women account for a sizeble proportion of cinema audiences"
Abrams and Bell and Udris, Nathan and Ian and Jan, 2001, Film Studying, New York: Nathan Abrams, Ian Bell and Jan Udris
"Female stars are constructed to appeal to male desire"
MACDOLNALD, Myra, 1995, Representing women, Myths of femininty in the popular media, London: Edward Arnold.
"Visually stunning women threters to achieve castration anxiety in the male veiwer" Page 27
"Female characters in the screen tend to be filmed in a way that emphasizes their 'to-be-looked-at-ress', and point of veiw shots within the frame are pre dominantly from a male perspective"
Page 27
"Women are the object of a dominant male gaze" Page 27
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