Lucy Liu playes Alex


















Cameron Diaz playes Natalie


















Drew Barrymore playes Dylan












The reason i have chosen thase pichures is because they are clips from Charlie's Angels- Full Throttle. They are useful for my independent study because the pichure are of the three main protagonists but also evidence to show that women are shown as sex objects.

• Lucy Liu is wearing a tight outfit, clearly revealing her figure therefore pleasuring men to watch her
• Cameron Diaz in the pichure is wearing a bikini on the beach. She is near water and that just makes clothes become revealing as a result pleasuring and entertaining men. This scenes in the film is also important because this particular scenes is shown in slow motion thefore giving the male audiences lonmger time to watch her keeping them entetained.
• The last pichure is of drew Barrymore shown as a pole dancer. This would entertain men as she is shown as a sex object. In the bachgroung you can see some men gazing at her body as a result pleasuring men.

To look separately at the role of women in the fields of film, video and television in Britain is to recognise that the experiences of women in these areas are somehow different to those of men. The work by women in moving image production both reflects and informs the position of women within British society since the 1920s.

During the 1990s, shifts in politics and a transformation of production and exhibition technologies allowed greater accessibility to the media, but the new market economy and a backlash against feminism contributed to a move away from overtly feminist practice.

These 2 paragraphs on representation of women is taken from a website i found that i thought would be useful for me when doing my independent study. It will strongly benefit me for the wider context, particularly the historical context as it talks about the past.

The website is:
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/824060/index.html

http://www.killermovies.com/c/charliesangels2/

This website has all the information about Charlie's Angels-Full throttle film. It includes a detailed synopsis, pichures from the film, the cast and also the director of the film. The trailer to the film can also be seen on this site.

PLOT SUMMARY-CHARLIE'S ANGELS-FULL THROTTLE

Natalie, Dylan, and Alex, three glamorous, tough-as-nails, investigative agents - who work for the Charles Townsend Detective Agency - are sent undercover to retrieve two missing jewelry bands. These are no ordinary wedding rings. They contain valuable information that reveals the new identities of every person in the FBI's Witness Protection Program. After five of the program's participants turn up dead, only the Angels can stop the perpetrator, using their expertise as masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts.

For my independent study I decided to do my study on representation of women and how they are represented in as sex objects to entertain and pleasure men focusing on Charlie’s Angels-Full throttle. I will also provide research and example for other texts that can be used to answer my hypothesis.

Hypothesis: The hypothesis for my independent study is to provide thorough evidence to show that women are seen as sex objects in contemporary films by giving relevant examples.

MEDIA LANGUAGE: Plenty of close up of female body parts and facial expressions, slow motion used to show sexy scene-women as sex objects and for dramatic purposes, Mise-en-scene is busy and interesting.

INSTITUTION: Columbia pictures (Sony), Tri star

GENRE: Action, comedy, Adventure, Crime

REPRESENTATION: has a contemporary stereotype e.g. sometimes Cameron Diaz is represented as the ditzy blond in the film.

AUDIENCE: audiences over the age of 15, targeted at both male and female of any ethnic background.

IDEOLOGY/ VALUES: challenges patriarchal society because the heroes are the women and the main characters.

NARRATIVE: closed narrative. Follows Todorov’s theory, Strauss theory and propp’s theory.

SOCIAL CONTEXT: challenges patriarchal society, after WW2, it gave women more freedom.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT: women are shown to have more power now that before, started changing after WW2, male gaze in 1975 was not succeeded.

ECONOMIC CONTEXT: Action films are more expensive to make compared to horror.

POLITICAL CONTEXT: challenges patriarchal society, conservative politicians are against violence, women need to adopt masculinity.

OTHER TEXTS:
Kill Bill-2002/2004
Pretty woman-1990
Tomb raider-2001/2003
Coyote Ugly-2000
Cat woman-2004
American pie (the wedding)-2004
Boat Trip-2002

THEORY/THEORISTS:
Levi Strauss-hero vs. villain
Vladimir Propp-narrative roles
Todorov-equilibrium-disequilibrium-resolution
Laura Mulvey-male gaze