https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a Explore the representation of women. en-us 2017-09-12 09:41:02 UTC 2023-01-25 20:11:52 UTC hello@padlet.com gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186707269 (Bell and Connell, 2012)
In the AS Media Studies Study & Revision Guide by Christine Bell  Fearne Cotton's Cosmopolitan cover were she is seen wearing clothes that shows the shape of her body, thus sexualising  her. At one point she says that "The cover appeals to both men and women; in simple terms women want to be her, men want to be with her.'" ]]> 2017-09-12 10:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186707269 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186713349 (christimothy12, 2017)
This slide share talks about the male gaze theroy and how its used in movies to show women. It talks about the two ways women can be represented in movies; as sexual objects or house wives. 
"Often the female has no real importances herself, it how she makes the feel or act that he is the importance"
"Passive audience will be influenced by this version of reality and copy it"
 ]]> 2017-09-12 11:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186713349 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186731118 Women are typically seen as two things; the housewife, mother or a sexual object. 
When a woman is being shown as a mother it shows off her maternal skills. Woman are normally shown as being the caretaker for the kids and someone that cooks and cleans in the house, there are seen to rely on men for things like finically aid as if women were only created to have kids and take care of those kids.
The other way that woman are treated is as sex objects. In most movies women if they not being mothers they will be seen as sex objects. Women are seen wearing tight clothes that show of their figure. Even if those woman have some importance in they film they are often sexualised.  ]]> 2017-09-12 12:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186731118 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186738025 "In the domain of the family, fathers or father-figures hold authority over women and children."(En.wikipedia.org, 2017) This suggests that men are more masculine and should be the ones to be the breadwinners.
  ]]> 2017-09-12 12:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186738025 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186785493 (mccollum, 2008)
"I will argue that the character of Beatrix Kiddo embodies a feminist interpretation of femininity in her complexity and fluidity. She displays an ability to perform both feminine and masculine roles in her behaviors, dress, and interactions with other characters, resulting in an evolving, complicated identity and a characterization that is ultimately feminist."
I found this interesting because its shows that 'the bride' in Kill Bill is both conforming to the stereotype the that women are maternal because she doing all these violence acts in the name of her child.But in the same sense she subverting the stereotype because she's not waiting for a man to help her she's going out of her way to kill people.
The audience never knows her name, even though she is the main protagonist we just know her as 'The Bride'. This could mean that she's so mysterious and strong but at the same time some say it makes her seem lesser than the people she's trying to find

]]> 2017-09-12 14:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/186785493 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/187497641 The opening sequence we 'the Bride' & 'Vernita Green' fighting to what seemed to be a fight to the death, they get interrupted by a school bus pulling up to the house. We see Green beg with her eyes for the fight to stop because her daughter is home, the fact that they ended the fight shows both the females conforming to the stereotype that women are more maternal. If it was men they wouldn't stop for a child.]]> 2017-09-14 11:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/187497641 https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/187858379 (YouTube, 2015)
I found this video very interesting because she explained the ways that this film touched on the subject for feminism. At one point she says that 'they is not enough female representation... if you only have one female they have to relate to everyone.' This means that the representation of woman is far from enough when it comes to having women in films. But in Mad Max there's a lot of woman that each audience member cam relate too. Theres not only the stereotypically ideas of a woman. Theres woman that are submissive like the wives, or you have someone like Imperator Furiosa that is more masculine and she breaks the stereotypes that women are weak, because she independent and has more masculine type behaviour.  ]]> 2017-09-15 09:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/187858379 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188143351 (En.wikipedia.org, 2017)
'The bechdel test  asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man'
The fact that this test even exists further implements the idea that women are nothing without men. Even when a man isn't present in a scene women can't talk about anything besides men, that conforms to the stereotype that women aren't significant without men. ]]> 2017-09-16 12:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188143351 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188368563 (Bateman, 2011)
"It would seem that where women have been represented as action characters... they are not likely to retain this status into older age.'' 
This shows that women don't typically play action characters passed age 40, after that age they start playing more maternal roles. As I've said before that women are meant to and a 'sexy' element to a movies and if a woman isn't considered the stereotypically definition of beauty, wether that be because they get old or they don't fit the 'blonde hair, blue eyed' category anymore they aren't seen playing action characters. Unlike men they can still go on to play characters in action films long past the age of 40. ]]> 2017-09-18 08:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188368563 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188375684 (Bell and Connell, 2012)
"The representation of M in Skyfall is both complex and ambiguous... she is not defined by her beauty or body image, as women in Bond films have been in the past, but instead by her brain and her ability to act and control situations." 
Unlike the stereotypical ideas of a woman in movies M is not adding a sexual element to the movies unlike the other women in the film. M is breaking stereotypes not only being a women in high commented and is controlling the men she managed to be a women in that field but she is arguably the best in her amongst both women and men.  Even though M isn't playing a sexualised character she does arguably play are more maternal role. She doesn't have the stereotypical behaviours of a mother like the sweetness and relying on a man she does tell everybody what they should do and nothing happens without her say so. Unlike the films I'm looking they don't show women of an older age playing roles in action roles, The fifth element, Mad Max: Fury Road and Kill Bill, they do break stereotypes of strong women playing lead roles, but these women aren't older and even though the films don't point out or sexualise their beauty they do have the stereotypically beauty ideas.  ]]> 2017-09-18 09:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188375684 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188394443 (Skyfall- Opening Sequence "take the shot" 007's "Death", 2017)
In the opening sequence of Skyfall we see Moneypenny trying to take a shot at Silva she is told to take the shot by M and when she she does take the shot she ends up shooting at Bond instead. Even though we know that M has years of experience and normally has a level headed she took the chance of letting Moneypenny taking a shot even though she isn't as well experienced. This conforms to the stereotype that women act on emotions. This is seen in Kill Bill because The Bride, is going on this big killing spree because of her child. As tough The Bride is she's doing all of the killing in the name of her child, that shows that  ]]> 2017-09-18 10:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188394443 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188815565 (Turn the Page, 2015)
"That’s how low the bar for the Bechdel Test is. But even then, there’s less than five seconds worth of film between two scenes."
The aim of the aim of the Bechdel test is to have two fictional female characters talk about something other than men. It should be a simple task but it seems that many filmmakers can't seem to pass this test. In the fifth element the boarding attendant asks Korben who Leeloo was, thats when Leeloo says her name and that she has a multi-pass. This interaction is barely seconds but it does technically pass the test but some say that isn't and should be enough to pass the test the interaction was so short and it didn't help the develop the storyline or the development of the characters.]]> 2017-09-19 10:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188815565 gnkosisfx https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188865942 The definition of a femme fatale is "a seductive woman who lures men into dangerous or compromising situations"  This type of woman is conforming to the stereotype that women are sexual beings. But these women don't take the stereotypical role of being maternal they are usually the people that get the main hero hurt or even killed. They use their gender and lust to make the man they want hurt.
Its shows that woman are smarter than they are normally seen as. It shows the skills that   ]]> 2017-09-19 13:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gnkosisfx/ztj1kfqarf6a/wish/188865942