NOW explains that their endorsements are intelligent, well-rounded authentic women, but Fazzone wants to know if they are really women who bask in the sex object role, and what are the shows NOW endorses are really about? Felicity was the third-most feminist show in NOW’s “Feminist Primetime Report,” yet the women would do anything for the crush she followed to college. For example, in the show, once a week, Felicity would revolve her life around the same guy. The other shows that were ranked high in NOW were heroines they stated as one’s who “broke out of the sex object role,” but Fazzone explains that instead these “heroines” are empowered only because they’ve decided that what really drives female power is sex. How authentic are these actresses that NOW endorses, Fazzone questions.
Since the 1920’s, situation comedy has evolved into one of the most popular TV genre’s, generally focusing on day to day events to highlight humorous faults of human behaviour. Voted number 1 on 2002’s list of 50 greatest Shows by TV guide, Seinfeld is a perfect example of a sitcom whose non-thinking humour attracts vast audiences. Seinfeld’s popularity is underpinned by the shows successfulness of making characters truly seem like everyone else, whereby audiences find it easy to identify with the characters. Since its premier in 1990 on NBC, Seinfeld has received 20 major awards including an Emmy award, Golden Globes, People’s Choice Awards and Screen Actors Guild awards, along with being nominated for another 60 awards over its 8 year domination.
Jordan Davis English 102 Emily Capettini October 31, 2012 When Harry Met Sally The film When Harry Met Sally confronts the differences between the sexes and speaks about gender roles and issues that had never been talked about on the big screen before. When Harry Met Sally was a significant eighties film because, it was the first to look into sex and friendship between both genders at the time. Another theme of the film is that each case of romance is different and Nora signifies this by the use of short sequences scattered through the film in which she interviews elderly couples and they tell their own version of how they met. It became such a memorable piece of culture not only because Nora Ephron wrote the screenplay but because of the way she had Harry and Sally communicating the way people would like to have communicated but could not. It was also the time when STD’s and AIDS came into the mainstream, so the themes of sex and intimacy interested audiences in 1980’s.
Songs about relationships, heartbreak, parties, alcohol, and sex, quite a dramatic change from previous songs, causing a drastic change of audience. Miley now writes her songs in a more personal manner, about her life and family as oppose to a more general topic. Miley still amazes people with her high and low pitches, and had continued to
Exploring By: Sydney Sanders WGST-201 Srs397 11155642 By: Sydney Sanders WGST-201 Srs397 11155642 Stereotypes of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Within Stereotypes of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Within Airing six seasons (2004-2009) on ShowTime, The L word is an American/Canadian coproduced television drama which follows the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, straight, and transgendered people in the trendy Greater Los Angeles California city of West Hollywood (Cavanaugh, 2009). In a time where majority of main characters seen on TV were heterosexual, the series is viewed as groundbreaking for being one of the first television series closely depicting lesbians with glimpses of other members of the LGBT community. While The L Word is seen as very progressive, and challenges many stereotypes, there are still issues behind the series. The series reinforces negative stereotypes held by society about lesbian women, and also faces a lack of representation for some groups. The L Word mainly follows a group of six close friends.
But hosting a talk show wasn't all Winfrey had in mind. Although untrained as an actress, she was nominated for an Oscar for her powerful performance as a slave in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple. (Two decades later Winfrey produced a musical version on Broadway.) She created Harpo productions to house her show and to produce socially relevant films. She also launched a monthly book segment on her show and her selections immediately became best sellers.
How does the Mise-en-scene in Sunset Boulevard help to shape the representation of Gender? Gender has always been a prevalent factor in cinema, especially in the American film industry and Hollywood, of which seems content on portraying women as being forever youthful. Richard Barsam and Dave Monahan in their book looking at movies, an introduction to film describe older actresses in the American film industry as scarce, sighting “ audiences show little interest in women older than forty-five” and the notable actresses that have been able to appear in films past middle age “ have taken roles as stereotyped eccentrics, where the camp value of their performance translates into the triumph statement, ‘I’m still here!” However, when this is applied to Gloria Swanson’s portrayal of faded star Norma Desmond, Swanson’s overdramatic acting is all the more poignant as she herself was once one of the greatest stars of the silent era. Indeed Sunset boulevard is at it’s a core, a comment on the coldness of the Hollywood system, most notably it’s ability to move on and leave stars like baggage, especially actresses. Throughout Sunset Boulevard, the mise-en-scene constantly plays with ideas of gender stereotypes offering a reflective look at a patriarchal Hollywood that disposes of stars as quickly as it makes them.
Transgenderism as Seen in The L Word In today’s popular media, most relationships between characters tend to be cisgendered and heteronormative in nature. Although the presence of heterosexual characters is becoming more apparent in modern media, Transgenderism is generally disregarded. However, in the Showtime drama The L Word, a female-to-male transgendered individual is one of the most popular and influential characters within the series. The character, altering their name from Moira to Max, comes to terms with their identity and begins the gender transitioning process in hope of permanently altering their sex from female to male. By televising the struggles of members of the transgender community with scenes of transgender prejudice, the female-to-male transitioning process, and the separation of sexual orientation from gender, The L Word is able to move beyond the confines of stereotypical gay television characters and is able to create a fairly accurate representation of conflicts that may arise for those within the transgender community.
The Breakfast Club written, produced and directed by John Hughes has been a powerful and influential film since its debut in 1985. Twenty eight years has passed, and in 2013; the culture, morals and the expectations of gender have change vastly. In 2013, the expectation of gender has become more diverse, and the restrictions on what a male or female can like, do or feel have been weakened. For example, the newest generation of the show My Little Pony has a large young adult male audience along with the targeted pre-teen girl demographic . In 1985, this was unheard of, and if a man were to watch such a show, he would surely have been ostracized.
Media is the backbone of American society today. People thrive on the drama of knowing what celebrity did what with who, or what stocks crashed this week, or even what the next act of congress might be. Every individual will have their own opinion on how important all of these topics are, but the fact still remains that without media, the large majority of people in today’s American society would be lost. One of the most common forms of media that is accessible by every American today is television. Television allows people to know what’s going on in the world, it gives people endless hours of entertainment, and it even has a certain value in advancing people’s knowledge on certain topics.