Women tutorial

Myself and Naziya on mondays cover lesson, diccussed on what and how fenakes were seen in both our texts, 'Provoked and Mr and Mrs Smith'.

linking it back to the sheet we had recievd in lesson on monday, both myself and Naziya had discussed key points on how females were seen to be different yet similar. For example, in 'Provoked' Aishwarya is seen to be a passive charcter,whereas in Mr and Mrs Smith, Angelina has a equivalent role towards the make and is seen to be domiant and active. Looking back at 'Provoked' Aishwarya was seen to be inferior yet she fughts backs for her rights, doing it the political way.

Looking at today's genration females are seento be equal and domiant towards the make as they are seento be having simirlar or better roles. Such can be that women are seen to be independent and taking control of there lifes that they live in.
Women roles have changed dramatically in the last 10 years , through the use of media and the use of women taking control.

50's advert representing women to be caring but then sexual too.



60's advert that shows women being domestic and sticking to there norms and values.



70's wonder woman comercial that shows the women being looked at and not excepted to the fcat that she just wants to be a superhero.



80's women being represnted to be the 'new woman' which shows that she is independent but in some ways can be presented to be a 'sexual object'


90's women being independent but then the eye candy for men

Blog Summaries

Both me and Naziya decided that we will work with Tanya, as she her blog buddy was not in today. We all somehow had managed to link our studies in some way inorder to give ourselves the oppourtunity to see what they have got to offer.Some of the areas me and Naziya had a discussion was over how females are seen to be inferior and how the males are seen to be superior. Furthemore, me and Dips were also looking at areas such as Masuculinity and gender roles itself. This is some way had also benefited Tanya as she was looking at Females in EastEnders, and we discussed what theroist all 3 of us can use, and the books that can come in handy for us all.

10 key points

Hype - Excitement built up by the media, Because of shocking news. This links well with my study because seeing Angelina Jolie performs and ‘New woman’ creates hype in the industry because she has not stuck to the usual stereotype of a woman.

Icon - Representing something- Angelina Jolie being an idol for a female audience. Her being able to have woman identify with her and wanting to be like her.

Ideology - A set of attitudes, beliefs, and values. This links well with my study because the represents the attitudes of the couples nowadays.

Kung fu - fight scene’s –This links well with my study as Angelina Jolie performs loads of fighting scene’s but we wouldn’t associate women in physical fighting it’s very rare but en forced very well.

Chiaroscuro lighting – Sharply constructing lighting, where strong highlight’s and dark shadow’s used for dramatic and atmospheric scene’s. There are many scenes’ where they use this particular lighting but in particular, Brad Pitt comes home and Jolie is waiting for him there wanting to kill him.

Crab Shot - Contained place- Hidden- This goes well with my study because in the fight scene the camera is placed in the plants, which shows the ‘eeriness’ of the atmosphere.

Deep Focus - Camera techniques this allows the object to be near and far from the camera and focus at the same time.
Feminism - Status of women by challenging values and construction. This goes well with my study as it challenge’s the stereotypes and present’s ‘The new woman’.

Femme fatale - Female who seduces and deceives in the movie in Mr and Mrs Smith she use’s her sexuality in order to get what she wants in the end.
Big close up - Emphasise on the image in order to capture the emotion. This goes well with my Study, as there is many big close up shot on the faces of the characters in order to capture their emotions.

Feminism- Status of women by challenging values and construction. This goes well with my study as it challenge's the sterotypes and present's 'the new woman'.

Big close up- emphasise on the image in order to capture the emotion. This goes well with my study, as there is many big close up shots on the faces of the characters in order to capture their emotions.

Book research

1.Natasha Walter-
‘On the move’
‘We need feminism now more then ever’
‘Better sex for bored couples’
‘You’ve got a lot of women in powerful position’s ‘
This goes well with my study, as it’s representing women in the new generation, which shows women are independent and linking in a less patriarchal society. It’s almost looking at a new woman’.

2.Media Studies- The essential resource- Phillip Rayner, Peter Wall and Stephen Kruger

‘Women can be powerful, Vulnerable and Feminine’
‘Re-imaging gendered relations’
‘Masculine roles’
Mr and Mrs Smith entail a clear representation of Women coming from being passive to the powerful Woman. Where Jolie is taking over the Masculine Roles.
3.David Guntlet

Media, Gender and Identity
‘Using women in the kitchen and Bather room adverts’
‘Women only in adverts for Beauty, cleanliness, family and pleasing others’
‘Men seem to be more interested in achievement and having fun’
David Gunter’s book on media gender and identity clearly outlines the differences men and women have and he focuses on a particular part, which linked with my study, which was’ stereotypes’. Jolie has a more dominant role in this film so according to this book it looks like the stereotypes have been broken.

4.Germaine Greer

The whole woman
‘She is a failure if she is not beautiful’
‘So establishing their lifelong reliance on beauty products’
Germaine Greer tackles the fact that women have to be beautiful to be successful. I can agree with this statement to an extent as it remains a fact that ‘Angelina Jolie’ is a beautiful woman but her playing this rebel and wanting to kill her husband shows that she does not really care about how she looks so this can be false too.
5.Mucer, Campbell, Jervis and Lewis (2001)

Media common concern about ‘ladettes’
‘Swearing, fast driving, graffiti- painting were as acceptable in women as in men’
‘Women were also asked to indicate how aggressive they were in their own lives’
‘Girl power’
Angelina jolie is the woman that takes up on all these acts mentioned above she has got girl power and she also is the feisty woman too.
6.Baehr and Dyer

Women and television
‘Taking women seriously’
‘Female topics, Rapes, and breast cancer’
Links well with my study as she is the woman that would tackle these issues because she’s independent and has a strong mind that does not need a man in her life.
7. McNeil

‘The symbolic Annihilation of women by the mass media’ (1978)
‘Women don’t count for much’
‘Women on American Television tells viewer’s that women don’t matter much in American society’
Linking this to my study was great because it proved to be wrong as Angelina Jolie is an American Woman and she is very successful and she is very important in the movie industry because she is representing the change in women and there independence nowadays.
8. Kaplan, 1983)

Women and Film
‘Woman is taking the screen’
‘Women are making a stand’
Having read this book I gathered very simple quotations as they were very short but then very effective and they linked to my study very well as Angelina Jolie was the centre of attention.
9. Humm, (1997)

Feminism and Film
‘Women had important roles in films’
This has proved to be true, as Angelina Jolie has taken the stand like many other women in the film industry. She has taken on an important role, to show how women are today.
10. Tasker, (1998)

Working Girls: Gender in sexuality popular Cinema.
‘The representations of women as ‘sex objects’ varied in style but was otherwise constant throughout’
This linked slightly to my study as there is a scene where Angelina Jolie is dressed like a stripper and she then seduces a man in order to get something, So you can look at it in both ways she is made to look like a sex object but then the man is looking like a fool because he gets fooled around with.

My blog buddy....

My blog buddie that i have choosen is Naziya... this is because we have the same topic that we are tackling.....Naziya issues and debates is about how women are stopped by the 'Glass ceiling' and seem to be dominated by men....She has the same sort of arguement as me ...

My second blog buddyy...is hammad because he's talking about a similar arguement to why and how the society is changing and making women look supieror to men....

Self directed- Report

According to my independent research blog I believe that I have not done too badly, but I can do better with the evidence of doing more as I am currently reading books on representation and feminism. From reading the chapters in the ‘working girls’ book it has proved to be useful ad the fact that its gives you factual information that will prove to be useful in the study.
Natasha Walter: On the move: Feminism for a new generation.
Yvonne Tasker: Working Girls – Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema.
Myra Macdonald: Representing Women –Myths of Femininity in the Popular Media.

I have looked at various delicious links and made my own statements about them… I have analysed reviews and video clips on my blog, which have proved to be useful.

I have to continue to work independtly then it will prove to be useful at the end of the coursework.

Task six, Textual Analiysis of a scene from Mr and Mrs smith ....

Media language

In this scene, It's all about suspision between the couple.. as they have found out the truth with each other and they have also discovered that they have been lying to each other... which cleary can be said that is normal in a relationship...But In the beggining of this scene you would think that the female would be reluctant to frive faster and get her own way by driving faster than her husband and getting to the house first! But she doesnt give in she goes full on and she's won over her man... The clearly shows that her dominance over her husband exsit's...

The scene has close up shots and medium shots ..this would be to create a supious feeling and make it seem like a sense of unexpectation which shows that the feeling of this film is based on the 21st century relationship which Doug Liman is trying to emphasise.

The lighting in this scence is very dark and dim which creates a drak, gloomy and suspious atmosphere 'wanting to know on what is going to happen next' sort of feeling which creates tension for the audience.

Genre

The genre of this movie seems to be a modern love story.... Action/drama would be the best to describe this film as it is entertaining as well as keeping the society up to date with the society's change in the 21st century relationship.

Representation in Mr and mrs smith seems to be very equal as the woman nor man is supieror towards one and other. They seem to have a sense of fighting for the titile almost showing who is the best gender in society... Angelina playing a very dominant and powerful woman shows the woman of the 21st century... and brad being the male seems to be fighting for his title of being the one that shows who's best.

Audience

The targeted audience would be couples between the ages of 19 and up . I say this because people get influenced on how they act towards one and other i would personally think that if a youger audience were to vewiw this film tjey wouldn't appreciate it as much whereas 19+ you can make your decsion's on whether you agree with the way in which they are being potrayed.

Narrative

Women- domestic work

Men- Breadwinners

what this film is saying that is not the case no more the woman can be as dominant and as equal as the male but the fact that it's being exepted is what the men do not like. the woman is more tuff and superior than the male.

http://killbill-volumetwo.blogspot.com/

However, women were pessimistically represented throughout the action genre which the ‘Male Gaze’; a term used by theorist Laura Mulvey in her essay 'Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema' (1975) would support, describes what Mulvey saw as the “male point of view adopted by the cinema” [5] for the benefit of an assumed male audience. However, ‘Kill Bill: Volume Two’ (2004) does not follow the issues Mulvey raises because Uma Thurman is represented with such great power, more than men with the help of her samuri sword, throughout the ‘The Crazy 88’ scene, where she singled handly killed them, the cameras were focused all on her and the audience were “mesmerized and captivated” [6] left with enigmas of her next move on her revenge to kill bill. However, Uma Thurman is represented as powerful and dominant, men are still getting their voyeuristic pleasures by watching Uma on her Killing rampage as her outfit is tight fitted which makes her attractive to look at the same time. The male audience may feel a little anxious by watching a powerful and dominant women shown in control by using many phalic objects, such as the samuri sword.

http://killbill-volumetwo.blogspot.com/

Firstly, women in the nineteenth century were seen with stereotypical roles, such as housewives, the ‘femme fatal’ and passive. Women “didn’t have many rights” [1] to do much in both the media and society, until feminism arised. One of the main reasons as to why women had no right was due to the patriarchal society, “a dual system in which men oppress women” [2]. Men were shown with much more power and dominance compared to women. For example, films from the early 1920’s, Safety Last! (1923), where women were seen as a ‘propp’ as we see the only female character to be featured in an action film as a girlfriend (Mildred Davis): not much importance to film. Normally, the dominant character in a action movie tends to be a male, and “women tend to be passive” [3] damsel in distress. However, ‘Kill Bill: Volume Two’ (2004) by Quentin Tarantino, challenges the patriarchal society as Uma Thurman plays the protagonist and dominant character, as the “audience would typically expect the protagonist to be a male” [4] instead of a omwne in the action genre.

http://c-angels.blogspot.com/

Gauntlett argues that in contemporary society, gender roles are more complex and that the media reflect this.He says female’s role models today are often glamorous as well as successful.He argues that this is due to the ‘rise in girl power’The reason women are represented inadequately is due to lack of females in higher positions. Media is a male dominated as a result woman is shown representation from their point of view.Film in particular sees women in an active role however they are being shown as eye candy and objectified.

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/22/power_chicks.html

Over time and across the generations, celebrity worship by young females between 10 to 20 years of age has changed. As Hopkins points out, “Male teen idols are secondary - the primary fantasy object in contemporary girl culture is the celebrity female.” (Hopkins, 4) Large posters of the Beatles, Bay City Rollers, Skyhooks, Duran Duran… in the bedrooms of girls growing up in the '60s, '70s and '80s, are now substituted for large posters of favourite girl heroes. Whether these girl heroes are their fantasy mentors or virtual older sisters, there is a yearning and desire fostered to become as famous and as powerful. On a mass scale, this is a tendency of the younger teenage girl. Perusing the audiences of Spice Girls and Bardot, for instance, will show that the median age is 13, if not younger; the age when fantasy and reality are merged and possibilities are infinite. But isn't this a passing phase, like playing hopscotch, nurses and doctors, hide and seek? Will a 13-year-old continue to model her life on the amorphous illusion of her girl hero, or will she wake up one day, nearer to adulthood, searching for the every day conversation, the basic ordinariness of life and its subsequent fundamentals? Unlike her girl hero who, in celluloid, never ages, never stops and reflects, never grows with the advent of daily responsibility, the 13-year-old does and so, at 23 and 33 far outgrows the girl hero of eternal youth.

“They're great role models, and they're much prettier in person. Oh my god, Sophie's beautiful”

Still 'girl heroes' or 'fame babes' may be reflective of, and banking on, the modern day girl's overriding desire for grand success. As Hopkins states: “Fame is replacing romance as the dominant female fantasy (…) Love and marriage is no longer the final answer to youthful feminine desire” (Hopkins, 189-191).

http://www.genderads.com/

The next segment, section 5, deals with forms of (female) objectification. Because the ads showing forms of objectification were so prevalent, I needed to dedicate a series of pages to the issue. Body Parts I Looks at how women’s breasts are used in advertising, while Body Parts II looks at further objectification of other body parts. No Subject demonstrates how objectification works to deny the subjectivity (the individuality) of the woman in the ad. Sex Object is a page that features the common representation of the woman as a purse sex object, there for the gaze and musings of the viewer.

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze09.html

As Jonathan Schroeder notes, 'Film has been called an instrument of the male gaze, producing representations of women, the good life, and sexual fantasy from a male point of view'. This clearly states on what the male gaze is aboutThe concept derives from a seminal article called ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ Book by Laura Mulvey, a feminist film theorist. It was published in 1975 (evan though it was old when it was the late 70's on when it was produced it still seems to get more extreme over the years) it will never die down.

Laura Mulvey did not undertake empirical studies of actual filmgoers, but declared her intention to make ‘political use’ of Freudian psychoanalytic theory (in a version influenced by Jacques Lacan) in a study of cinematic spectatorship. Such psychoanalytically-inspired studies of 'spectatorship' focus on how 'subject positions' are constructed by media texts rather than investigating the viewing practices of individuals in specific social contexts. Mulvey notes that Freud had referred to (infantile) scopophilia - the pleasure involved in looking at other people’s bodies as (particularly, erotic) objects. In the darkness of the cinema auditorium it is notable that one may look without being seen either by those on screen by other members of the audience. Mulvey argues that various features of cinema viewing conditions facilitate for the viewer both the voyeuristic process of objectification of female characters and also the narcissistic process of identification with an ‘ideal ego’ seen on the screen. She declares that in patriarchal society ‘pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female’ (Mulvey 1992, 27). This is reflected in the dominant forms of cinema. Conventional narrative films in the ‘classical’ Hollywood tradition not only typically focus on a male protagonist in the narrative but also assume a male spectator. ‘As the spectator identifies with the main male protagonist, he projects his look onto that of his like, his screen surrogate, so that the power of the male protagonist as he controls events coincides with the active power of the erotic look, both giving a satisfying sense of omnipotence’ (ibid., 28). Traditional films present men as active, controlling subjects and treat women as passive objects of desire for men in both the story and in the audience, and do not allow women to be desiring sexual subjects in their own right. Such films objectify women in relation to ‘the controlling male gaze’ (ibid., 33), presenting ‘woman as image’ (or ‘spectacle’) and man as ‘bearer of the look’ (ibid., 27). Men do the looking; women are there to be looked at. The cinematic codes of popular films ‘are obsessively subordinated to the neurotic needs of the male ego’ (ibid., 33). It was Mulvey who coined the term 'the male gaze'.

Mulvey distinguishes between two modes of looking for the film spectator: voyeuristic and fetishistic, which she presents in Freudian terms as responses to male ‘castration anxiety’. Voyeuristic looking involves a controlling gaze and Mulvey argues that this has has associations with sadism: ‘pleasure lies in ascertaining guilt - asserting control and subjecting the guilty person through punishment or forgiveness’ (Mulvey 1992, 29). Fetishistic looking, in contrast, involves ‘the substitution of a fetish object or turning the represented figure itself into a fetish so that it becomes reassuring rather than dangerous. This builds up the physical beauty of the object, transforming it into something satisfying in itself. The erotic instinct is focused on the look alone’. Fetishistic looking, she suggests, leads to overvaluation of the female image and to the cult of the female movie star.

This article generated considerable controversy amongst film theorists. Many objected to the fixity of the alignment of passivity with femininity and activity with masculinity and to a failure to account for the female spectator. A key objection underlying many critical responses has been that Mulvey's argument in this paper was (or seemed to be) essentialist: that is, it tended to treat both spectatorship and maleness as homogeneous essences - as if there were only one kind of spectator (male) and one kind of masculinity (heterosexual). E Ann Kaplan (1983) asked ‘Is the gaze male?’. Both Kaplan and Kaja Silverman (1980) argued that the gaze could be adopted by both male and female subjects: the male is not always the controlling subject nor is the female always the passive object. We can ‘read against the grain’. Teresa de Lauretis (1984) argued that the female spectator does not simply adopt a masculine reading position but is always involved in a ‘double-identification’ with both the passive and active subject positions. Jackie Stacey asks: ‘Do women necessarily take up a feminine and men a masculine spectator position?’ (Stacey 1992, 245). Indeed, are there only unitary ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ reading positions? What of gay spectators? Steve Neale (1983) identifies the gaze of mainstream cinema in the Hollywood tradition as not only male but also heterosexual. He observes a voyeuristic and fetishistic gaze directed by some male characters at other male characters within the text (Stacey notes the erotic exchange of looks between women within certain texts). A useful account of 'queer viewing' is given by Caroline Evans and Lorraine Gamman (1995). Neale argues that ‘in a heterosexual and patriarchal society the male body cannot be marked explictly as the erotic object of another male look: that look must be motivated, its erotic component repressed’ (Neale 1992, 281). Both Neale and Richard Dyer (1982) also challenged the idea that the male is never sexually objectified in mainstream cinema and argued that the male is not always the looker in control of the gaze. It is widely noted that since the 1980s there has been an increasing display and sexualisation of the male body in mainstream cinema and television and in advertising (Moore 1987, Evans & Gamman 1995, Mort 1996, Edwards 1997).

. . .Essential key words . . .

Male Gaze
Male Gaze is a term in which is used by Laura Mulvy to emphasise on the Woman being a ‘sex object’ towards men. This would encounter the women being the centre of attention and the men watching the woman in order to purse fulfil their pleasures. This relates to my personal study of Mr and Mrs Smith, as ‘Angelina Jolie’ is the Male Gaze on screen as she an attractive woman that would be the eye candy for men.

Laura Mulvy
Laura Muvly ties in very well towards my Independent study as she encourages the fact of Men viewing women as ‘Sex objects’ and they only watch women for there bodies and make them look out to be ‘eye candy’. Even though Mr and Mrs Smith has rejected the patriarchal society the audience may still go and watch the movie not for the action but the fact that ‘Angelina Jolie’ is starring in it.

Norms
The norms and values in the movie have been slightly challenged as the Women and Male roles have been rejected. The women is being more dominant over the man and she is seen to be doing domestic stuff but in a more ruff way. The woman in Mr and Mrs Smith is seen to be more ruff and a bit of a rule breaker. The man (Brad Pitt) seen to be taking more of the Woman role, which may seem quite strange but realistically it happens.

Representation
Representation is where the media has identification for an individual. E.g. Representations provides us with a description of a gender, social groups, and individuals. Representation in my study seems to be played around; as we would not stereotype a woman as being ‘dominant’ clearly the representation has been played around with.

Stereotype
Stereotyping is seen to be an existing description for identifying different common characteristics. In Mr and Mrs Smith it does not exist as the typical stereotype has been rejected and the fact that Women dominance has taken over has a real big impact. E.g. the woman has more power than before and has the status of a ‘Man’.

Feminism
A Movement in which encounters the challenging of female roles, social constructions. This includes the fact of women being able to do more in the society and to be able and excepted in doing them. I believe this film gives a great impact and shows how women are changing and men finding it hard to except but have to adapt to this change in society.

A list
Top-notch actors and actresses. Mr and Mrs Smith have the best of the best ‘Angelina Jolie’ and ‘Brad Pitt’. Which will gain a mass audience.

Cosmopolitan magazine
Cosmopolitan is a magazine, which encounters a ‘typical’ lifestyle of the woman nowadays. This magazine shows of the ‘new woman’ with career opportunities and making it focus on her and not the fact of having you life revolve around a man. Mr and Mrs Smith re-enforces this completely as she gets on with her individual life but still puts herself first.

Consumerism
Consumerism is when you are fed a certain idea and with reading it over and over you get used to it so this means your consuming the information given. With Mr and Mrs Smith you are being fed the fact of women being quite dominant and superior over Men, and so this will influence the idea of women being powerful and so this stereotype will stick in your mind.

Deviance
Deviance plays a big part in Mr and Mrs Smith this is because the woman seems to be very domestic and a typical wife of a man. But the film cleverly re forms that image of her being perfect it completely steers the other way to show the audience that looks can be deceiving and she is the one that holds the most powerful role in the movie if not, equally powerful than usual.

In video two...In this scene, the woman seems to be rebeling back towards her husband which creates a non patriarcal society. . . which shows that it's dieing out.... she's using knives and guns to kill her husband . . .The woman seems to have a dominance over her husband which shows that the society is changing and the 21st century era has arrived....

Blogs I Commented On!!!!

Kabir -https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6908837553612179474&postID=6112581836904863859

Kirandeep -https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=398656330143472243&postID=7961775615349780656

Naziya -https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4862720983698072372&postID=1988306743696121442

Tanya -https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2011388675289093128&postID=2636301860188828971

saz-https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3744817234900190432&postID=7137825013266956398

...Representations of femininity...

Representations of Femininity


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Feminism has been a recognised social philosophy for more than thirty years, and the changes that have occurred in women's roles in western society during that time have been nothing short of phenomenal. Click here for a brief set of definitions. Yet media representations of women remain worryingly constant. Does this reflect that the status of women has not really changed or that the male-dominated media does not want to accept it has changed?

Representations of women across all media tend to highlight the following:

beauty (within narrow conventions)
size/physique (again, within narrow conventions)
sexuality (as expressed by the above)
emotional (as opposed to intellectual) dealings
relationships (as opposed to independence/freedom)
Women are often represented as being part of a context (family, friends, colleagues) and working/thinking as part of a team. In drama, they tend to take the role of helper (Propp) or object, passive rather than active. Often their passivity extends to victimhood (see the discussion of the misogynistic PantyRaider below). Men are still represented as TV drama characters up to 3 times more frequently than women, and tend to be the predominant focus of news stories.

The representations of women that do make it onto page and screen do tend to be stereotypical, in terms of conforming to societal expectations, and characters who do not fit into the mould tend to be seen as dangerous and deviant. And they get their comeuppance, particularly in the movies. Think of Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) in Fatal Attraction or, more recently, Teena Brandon/Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) in Boys Don't Cry. America seems to expect its women to behave better than their European counterparts - British viewers adored the antics of Patsy & Edina in Absolutely Fabulous, but these had to be severely toned down (less swearing, NO drugtaking) for the US remake, High Society (which was a flop).

Discussions of women's representation in the media tend to revolve around the focus on physical beauty to the near-exclusion of other values, the lack of powerful female role models, and the extremely artificial nature of such portrayals, which bear little or no relation to the reality experience by women across the planet. It would take almost a whole A-level course to cover these representations and the issues surrounding them in depth (if interested, do Womens or Gender Studies at uni), but you might want to start by reading the following:

Women's Body Image in the Media
Media Report to Women - a roundup of issues
Images of Women in Computer Games - a discussion of PantyRaider
Raw Nerve - Offensive representations
Deadly Persuasion - the power of advertising (lengthy, but worth a read)
The secrets of marketing to women - the startling econmic truth

lol.. best moments of Mr and Mrs smith....

wheres my wife....

In this scene, the woman seems to be rebeling back towards her husband which creates a non patriarcal society. . . which shows that it's dieing out.... she's using knives and guns to kill her husband . . .

Busta rhymes................like the Mr and Mrs smith movie......

women representation books

Seeing and Consciousness: Women, Class and Representationby Gen Doy - Art - 1995
... Representation Acknowledgements I would like to thank all those who helped ... I am also indebted to my seminar students on my Women and the Visual Arts ...
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Representation: cultural representations and signifying practices - Page 366by Stuart Hall - 2003
First, the term women's culture requires some caution. ... gendered and sexual identities are social constructs to which representation contributes. ...
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WhO IS IT FOR??.....

Media audiences

From watching the movie Mr and mrs Smith over the summer i have come to a conclusion that the target audience is 16-25 year old i have said this broad age as it is for the people that are interesed in the movie because of the people who are starring in it like in this movie it is Brad pitt and Angelina Jolie. The media has clearly influenced this use in order to sell the movie.

The conditions that the audience are under is the ways in which how they are always famliarised with the hero and herion automatically but this movie plays with the roles abit, as both the characters are as dominant as each other.

From veiwing the movie, and putting myself into the shoes of the audince it clearly shows that they would read the text 'unrealisticly' this would be because it is not very often you see a woman as the superior one in the movie you would automatically adress the man as one of the superior one the the film. This clearly then shows the human mind and this then shows on whatever the media feeds us we believe, and then that always goes.

As an audience member we are clearly shown that it is possible to recognise the ways and the situations that the director has out us in. Because even though these are not real life situations that we see in the movie, we can relate to it to some extent. For example, The way how men are not always dominant in the relationship and the fact that the woman is always demanding and taking control. The film represents the 21st century relationship but not getting blown up by a bomb that you jus made, i'm talking about how women are more in control over their men, and how women are more treated equally.

Media values and ideology

The criteria that has been chosen for the content to come ouot on how it is, would have been the questions that where asked for eg.. why are men more higher than women are? ..what are the reasons for men being more supeiror?... why have they come to the conclusion that they have to present men and women in a more equal manner.... Doug liman has clearly showed the knowledge that he has gained throughtout the making of the movie and he has made sure that he has answered all the questions that the audience and producers may have had.

Genre

The movie belongs to and Action/comedy genre.

Narative

The audience has been postioned in a way that they do not know who the hero is in the film. i say this because it seems as if Doug Liman has dilibrately made this situation so the audince can decide on who is the supieror one. And the narrative to this movie is all about the relationship of two ordinary people and the ways in which they interact with each other you may think to yourself that it doesn't seem normal to see these two persons together like this because it's not what you see everyday.

The heros/ vilians have been created through alot of research been done into this topic of women being equal towards men. Many theroits would agree as it has answered the questions of the Audience.

The people that have been employed are normal people and who have been in relationships... this may be useful to the director in order to create this film as they are real people and i belive Doug liman wanted to capture the true essence of the realism in the couple.

The mise-en-scene that has been used to create the movie goes well with the idea of ordinary people and there relationship.

music for example:

1. Love Stinks – The J. Geils Band

3. Tainted Love – Soft Cell

4. Baby, Baby – Alana D

5. Express Yourself (Mocean Worker Remix) – Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

6. Mondo Bongo - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

7. Lay Lady Lay – Magnet featuring Gemma Hayes

8. I’ll Melt With You – Nouvelle Vague

9. Nobody Does It Better – 8mm

10. Let’s Never Stop Falling in Love – Pink Martini

11. Assassin’s Tango – John Powell

12. Used to Love Her (But I Had To Kill Her) - Voodoo Glow Skulls

13. You Are My Sunshine – Stine J.

14. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ – Righteous Brothers
15. Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply

16. You Give Love a Bad Name – Atreyu

17. Love Will Keep Us Together – Captain & Tennille

Going through the list of songs on the soundtrack album it clearly shows that it goes with the movie completely as they are in a love/hate relationship which proves that it is realistic because we don't have perfect relationships.

The themes that are in this movie are ...love....hate...who is better than who?....the more realistic themes.

Media representations

The people who have been represented are the main chracters who are Brad and Jolie as they are the two people that are in the relationship and the Director Doug Liman is the one that is focusing the camera on them two... so they are the ones that are being presened throughtout the movie... we could also say that the reasons for the love and hate relationship proves that they would actulally "ride or die for each other" -(literallly)

Independent research study proposal

" That's the second time you've tried to kill me today."
"Oh, come on. it was just a little bomb."

Female's have been dominant over males yet still remain inferior . how has Mr and Mrs smith shown the development of the female roles?

Film study: Mr and Mrs Smith

Hypothesis: This society is known to be very male dominant and the society still is for the patriarchal society this shows that women still are lower then men. Mr and Mrs Smith has been portrayed as the ‘21st century relationship’ where the man and woman are equal.

Director: Doug liman

Release date: 10 June 2005

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Action / comedy/romance and thriller are the main aspects in the mise-en-scene. All the characters that Doug Liman has chosen all have the success of being quite dominate and also have strong minds.

I also am going to look into the institution ‘new regency pictures’. They are rivals of many company’s such as Warner etc.

Genre would be one of the main aspects due to the fact that it is top action spy movie. And the characters that have been chosen to be included in the movie create this.

By looking at the film I will be analysing the different representations on all characters but mainly how the women have been represented in this particular movie.

I will be looking at the narrative through the theorist such as prop, Todrov ect and then link them to the different ways in which it links to the movie.

I will be linking it to the ways in which the society have when they view the movie I thought if I do include thins like that it would be more realistic.

I will be looking at the development of how the industry has portrayed women in many ways and I will also link it to other texts in order to make my point a bit more.

Action films have great ways in which they make their money as the film sells because of the chosen characters.

Other texts (films) that I wish to link are
-How to lose a guy in ten days
-Hitch
-Tomb raider
-kill bill

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