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Lauzen, Martha M. "It's a Man's World." Challenge 1.10 (2015): n. pag. Women in TV Film. Web.
Key Words: Representation, Race, Women
Summary: This article includes key statistics on how women are not accurately portrayed. Men dominate over them in every way in the film industry, and women of color are represented even less.
Opinion: I feel as though it is incredibly important for women to be able to see themselves represented on screen, and it is even more important for women of color to have representation.
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Smith, Stacy, and Crystal Cook. "Gender Stereotypes." Gender Stereotypes: An Analysis of Popular Films and Tv (n.d.): n. pag. See Jane. Web. 11 Apr. 2017.

Key Words: Stereotypes, Film, TV, Negative
Summary: This article studies the various stereotypes that women are subjected to in popular film and television. This includes hyper-sexualization, dumbing down, and just "toys" for men to enjoy.
Opinion: As stated previously, I believe that these stereotypes need to change. Women are so diverse in not only their looks but also their personalities. Women and girls deserve to see these diversities portrayed on screen.
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Krahn, Kayla. "Reel Women: Gender Stereotypes in Film." Common. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Stereotypes, Women
Summary: This article like many others talks about the negative stereotypes that women are portrayed as in film.
Opinion: Again, I feel as though it is important to break the portrayal of these stereotypes due to the fact that girls and women should not see themselves portrayed in this way.
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Key Words: Gender Gap, Hollywood, Women, Inequality

Summary: This article talks about the obvious gender gap in Hollywood. There are very few women behind the scenes in comparison to men and this is the reason that there is a lack of representation on screen as well.

Opinion: I agree wholeheartedly with this article and this gap needs to be broken. First, we must tackle the wage gap in order to tackle the lack of women in certain industries.
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Murphy, Jocelyn. "The Role of Women in Film: Supporting the Men -- An Analysis of How Culture Influences the Changing Discourse on Gender Representations in Film." Scholar Works. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Role, Women, Film
Summary: This article talks a lot about the fact that women are underrepresentated, and when they are in films as main characters, they act purely to support the male character in his endeavors.
Opinion: I agree with this completely. Females must be shown that they are not just subordinate to men and they do not exist just to please a man.
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"The Portrayal Of Female Characters In Films Film Studies Essay." UKEssays. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Characters, Portrayal
Summary: This essay talks about the fact that women, although the industry is lacking in equality, are just as important as men when it comes to the characters they portray. Despite the stereotypes, women are more often than not crucial to the man's character.
Opinion: This article was an extremely interesteing read because I never truly thought about female characters in this way. The article says stuff like "for every James Bond, he has his Bond girl" and also cites that Shakespeare's Hamlet also centers around women. Women are extremely important in film!!!!!
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Kaplan, E. Ann. Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Print.
Key Words: Representation, Women, On screen, Off screen
Summary: This book explains that women are vastly misrepresentated both on screen and behind the screen. It cites the cause for the lack of representation on film for the lack of women in the film industry (directors, writers, producers).
Opinion: I read some of this book that I checked out from the library, and it has some very valid points. Especially the reason for so little representation being the wage and gender gap in the film industry.
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Psychology, Abnormal. "Content Analysis of Gender Roles in Media: Where Are We Now and Where Should We Go." Sex Roles. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Gender roles, sex, media
Summary: This article criticizes the traditional stereotypes that women portray in movies (promiscuity, overt femininity, homekeepers). It also explains possible ways to move up from there.
Opinion: I agree with this article because more times than not, women are portrayed as weak beings without careers, only existing to serve men. We need to give strong women more screentime.
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Smith, Stacy, Marc Choueiti, Elizabeth Scofield, and Katherine Pieper. "Gender Inequality in 500 Popular Movies." Annenberg. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Gender, Inequality, Prevalence, Portrayal
Summary: This article studies the prevalence, portrayal, and inequality of women in the top 500 films.
Opinion: Clearly women are portrayed with obvious detrimental stereotypes, and are not as prevalent as men in almost every single film. We need to find a way to fix this!
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Sharma, Versha, and Hanna Sender. "Hollywood Movies With Strong Female Roles Make More Money." Vocativ. Vocativ, 01 Mar. 2014. Web. 11 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Bechdel Test, 2013, Movies, Gross
Summary: This article portrays proof that movies with accurate female representation, movies that pass the Bechdel Test, overwhelmingly made more money than those that didn't
Opinion: I completely agree with this article and I am not surprised by the outcome. Women want to see themselves accurately portrayed, therefore they will see more movies that show this accurately.
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"Normalizing Male Dominance: Gender Representation in 2012 Films." Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy. N.p., 12 Feb. 2013. Web. 12 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Dominance, Representation, Gender
Summary: This article shows the obvious discrepancies between genders in popular movies, talking about the stereotypes such as "sex sells, conflict sells, etc" that women are often subject to.
Opinion: I agree with this article totally, because men are so often shown dominating over women on and off camera, and often, we don't even notice while we are watching our favorite films.
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Lauzen, Martha, Tiffany Nguyen, and Kate McCarthy. "Women's Media Center." Moving Beyond the Bechdel Test. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Bechdel Test, History, Film
Summary: This article addresses how the Bechdel test works and how it came about. This test is extremely important in testing the representation of women.
Opinion: The Bechdel Test is crucial for women in film. Although it is a very basic test, many popular films do not pass it and this is the reason why films need to be approached more critically.
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California, Women's Museum of. "Why There Must Be Increased Female Representation in the TV and Film Industries." Women's Museum of California. N.p., 09 Mar. 2017. Web. 13 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Increasing Representation, Industry, Audience Awareness
Summary: This article in particular talks about audience awareness and how important it is for people to be able to see others like themselves on screen.
Opinion: I 100% agree with this article, as growing up it was particularly hard to find women who were funny, or action heroes, or a mixture of both. These are the types of things that women, especially young women, need to see.
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Bleakley, A., P. E. Jamieson, and D. Romer. "Trends of Sexual and Violent Content by Gender in Top-grossing U.S. Films, 1950-2006." The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. U.S. National Library of Medicine, July 2012. Web. 14 Apr. 2017.
Key Words:  Media, Violent content, Gender differences
Summary: This article interprets the steady rise of sexual and physical violence in movies for the past half a century, particularly against women
Opinion: I definitely agree with this article, and women are definitely treated as sexual beings in multiple movies, even kid's movies. This needs to change.
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Lee, Kevin B. "Cinemetrics Extracts Statistical Data From Movies." The New York Times. The New York Times, 27 Feb. 2014. Web. 10 Apr. 2017.
Key Words: Statistics, Representation, Women,
Summary: This article helps to explain the obvious gender gap in movies as well as awards such as The Academy Awards. It describes disparities between women and men and the different characters they portray.
Opinion: I agree with this that there is an obvious disparity between genders, as well as between Academy Award Winners.
Credibility: Author