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.