Information from my power point presentation!!!

DAVID GAUNTLETT

•Argues that in contemporary society, gender roles are more complex and that the media reflects this.
•He points out that female role models today are often glamorous as well as successful in a way that they were previously not.
•He argues that much is due to ‘girl power’ in the media. Through identities constructed by music artists such as Destiny’s child as well as contemporary actresses for example who are demanding less passive film roles.



LAURA MULVEY

Her theory links in with DAVID GAUNTLETT on how women’s roles in films are changing from passive to active. Laura Mulvey’s theory is that women have the passive ’house wife’ role and the males have the active ’hero’ roles.
Charlie’s angels 1 & 2, Kill Bill, my super ex-girth friend, Tomb raider, Cat woman are all contemporary films that challenge Laura Mulvey’s theory.
Charlie’s angels challenges the theory however some can say that they are still playing the ’passive’ role because they are taking orders from a mysterious voice, a male voice.



DESTINY CHILD

Destiny child had a soundtrack for Charlie’s angels. Independent women.

Society has changed a lot and now women have as much freedom as men. They are not seen as the stereotypical house wife.

Women in films are becoming more active e.g. Charlie’s angels promoting the independent woman.

This would challenge a patriarchal society because women are becoming more independent.

Because the song was called independent women, it is directly speaking to women who are independent.

INDEPENDENT means:
•Unaided
•Uncontrolled
•Self-ruling
•Self-reliant
•individual


PINK

Pink features in the film during the bike race and also has a soundtrack for the film- Feel good time.
Pink is represented and acts like a tough woman. She does the sort of things you would see a man do, changing the gender roles. She is not seen the same as other women, like a calm housewife but the leader of a noisy, motor bike race, which the audience would assume would be male. A stereotype that men are more into bikes than females.

Her fashion style and hair style is also different to other women.


VLADIMIR PROPP

•The hero in the films are the angels (Diaz, Liu, Barrymore)= PROTAGONISTS
•The villains are Seamus ‘o’ Grady (Justin Theroux), and Madison Lee ( Moore)= ANTAGONIST
•The dispatcher is Charlie
•The false hero is Madison Lee
• The helper is Jimmy Bosley

The character roles for women are changing in contemporary films from the males being the protagonists to the females.


TZVETAN TODOROV

•The storyline focuses two important rings. The rings are safe at first then… they get stolen then… they are returned to the wrong person who than steals them again finally the resolution, the rings are returned safely.
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•The locations they end up such as the STRIP CLUB, BEACH, AND the PUB to get the rings are used to entertain and pleasure the audience. Men are shown throughout the film especially the scenes I’ve mentioned above like they are having entertained by the females.


Claude Lévi-Strauss

•In action films the main binary opposition is good vs. evil.
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•In Charlie’s angels it is the angels vs. Seamus ‘o’ Grady
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This changes the role of women, especially in
action films as the hero’s in action films were males,
however changing in contemporary films.
In Charlie’s angels the hero’s are the three FEMALE
Angels.


ROLAND BARTHES

•Bathes enigma code is used in Charlie’s angels to create suspense and keep the audience entertained.
•When Madison Lee shots the angels, its all in slow motion and they fall of a tall building. The enigma is built because we are not informed if the girls are dead or what happened. This this makes the audience come up with their own conclusion.
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This is another alternative to pleasuring

Barthes enigma codes are useful in entertaining the audience without the use of other pleasures such as women. It keeps the audience entertained and as a result less bored while watching the film.


WOMEN

The sex discrimination act (1986)
ensured quality of representation for both genders in the media and in industry.

•Women's roles have changed over the decades. Before, the males were the dominant in society (patriarchy), however in contemporary society, roles have changes and is becoming more equal for females. Compared from before (around 1950's) more woman are getting jobs and having a successful career, whereas, before woman were 'housewives' staying at home, doing the cooking, cleaning and looking after the children while the males worked. Even in films as I've mentioned before, women are becoming more 'active' from their 'passive' roles. HOWEVER, they are still seen as sex objects for pleasure of men in films such as coyote ugly, sin city, cat woman and Charlie's angels 1 & 2.

•The statistics on the amount of woman who are in employment is shown on my blog.


FEMINIST THEORY

•Feminism is the response to society’s assumptions that women should be second important to men. Until the emergence of feminism, women were treated almost as objects, passive agents in a male world.
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•The roots of the feminist movement extends back to the eighteenth century but the run of the suffragette movement to the which fought for the vote for women in the early part of the twentieth century and the land girls and other women who moved into many occupations during the second world war.


Coyote ugly (2000)

•The majority of the scenes in the film are situated in a pub with the bar girls dancing on top of the platform and pouring alcohol over themselves and the men glued to them. This would pleasure as well as entertain men because the dancing is to entertain the men.


When they are dancing in the coyote ugly bar they are wearing revealing clothes. They are also tight clothes so their figure can be seen clearly


This would entertain and pleasure men because all the people dancing on the platform are all females and the audience who have come to watch them are all males enjoying themselves because of the women.


AMERICAN PIE(the wedding)

Michelle takes it upon herself to start pleasuring Jim under the table


A stripper was invited at the bachelor party for the men’s pleasure in the film.


Having a stripper in the film also entertains and pleasures the men who are audience as well using females and the objects for their satisfaction.


Stifler is represented as a sex addict because he talks and thinks about sex constantly in the film.