In recent times, there have been a number of movies that have addressed these issues of the past, present and future which has contributed to a better understanding and more respect for women. In 2003, director Mike Newell made his contribution and brought “Mona Lisa Smile” to the theatres. This is a movie that eloquently sheds light on the struggle of women in the 50s in a way that even the most modern of women today can still relate to. The opening of the movie sets the tone for the story as Betty Warren (Kirsten Dunst) begins telling the tale of a determined new art history teacher, Miss Katherine Ann Watson (Julia Roberts) who studied at UCLA and left Oakland State University after teaching for one year to pursue the job of her dreams at the prestigious Wellesley College, an all-women’s private and highly conservative college in Massachusetts. We are introduced to Katherine’s character as a woman who “made up in brains
In the 70’s she had her screen debut and ever since then she has been getting work to this day. Streep always chooses real life characters and is considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, because she is like a chameleon on screen. She is also well known for her ability to imitate a wide range of accents, from Italian to Danish, English, Polish, German and the list goes on. Such a wide variety, that in Wikipedia they have a section of its own of all the dialects she can do. Known for being a perfectionist when preparing for her roles, it was said that for her role in Music of the Heart (1999) she learned to play the violin, by practicing 6 hours a day for 8 weeks.
Oprah brings her heart and soul into everything she is doing. Oprah is always willing to try new things and be creative. Oprah preaches self-empowerment but she also exemplifies and radiates it herself. It was her self-empowering attitude that made her emerge from a frequently abusive and bleak looking upbringing to become one of the most influential people in the world. She developed such a strong personality that she was able to climb the rungs of broadcasting very quickly, even though very few African American women up to that time had become a major factor in the media.
As a matter of fact, in 1990 her name was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Recently, she has done more comedy and being on her E! television programs than acting in films or other productions. I only knew of Joan Rivers from E!’s Fashion Police that my mom occasionally watches. I do not like how she criticizes everything about others and attacks people by putting them down all the time, but I was still curious to find out what this book was all about.
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.
She joined the cast of Sesame Street in 1971, two years after its premiere ("Wordpress.com," 2009). Here she introduced sign language to hearing homes across America. She was also featured in a Sesame Street book entitled, “Sesame Street Sign Language Fun with Linda Bove.” Her time on Sesame Street ended in 2003, making her role the longest running role, in history, for a deaf person on television (Jay, 2008). In addition to Sesame Street, Linda also had had many other acting roles and was even cast in a Broadway show. She performed on a soap opera called Search for Tomorrow (Jamie, 2011), as Melissa Hayley Weldon in 1973 and in Happy Days as Fonzie’s deaf girlfriend, Allison, in 1980 (Jay, 2008).
Certain magazines, like Seventeen, talk about being body positive, but show slim models in their pages (Benowitz-Fredericks et al, 2012). How is an adolescent girl going through changes supposed to make heads or tails of what they are reading? In addition, many television networks talk about going against body ideals, but have only thin actresses on the network. Even within the music industry there are songs about being body positive, yet they come from singers who are relatively slim. Being heavier than “normal” becomes a criticism of character and leaves girls the most vulnerable.
The Fight for Female Empowerment in the 1960’s and 1970’s had been going on for decades. Women and even men had struggled tirelessly against the lack of equal rights given to women. Having earned a significant victory in the 1920’s in women’s suffrage, the feminist movement slowed down a bit in the following years. In the 1960’s however, the movement came bursting back to life with feminist leaders such as Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem, and new laws like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which was one of the most important accomplishments in the feminist movement. The feminist movement thrived during the 1960’s and 1970’s, opening doors for new possibilities for women and taking giant steps towards equal rights.
Make up throughout the decades Makeup has been around for a long period of time, and has been used by many people of different cultures and races throughout the world. Makeup dates back to the early 1700s it was actually quite toxic due to the fact that the ingredients used included mercury and lead. The makeup was used by women make themselves feel prettier Max factor was one of the original make up manufactures he was the first to create the pancake make up and lip gloss. in the 1920s the upper class of women where wearing makeup in public while many others felt that it looked cheap and tacky. After a few years later up until the 60s movie stars set out a lot of the “new” trends in many make up styles.
This article tar-gets the general reader of The Atlantic Magazine, and people with special interest in the subject of gender roles. This article was motivated by the fact that women became the dominant part of the workforce in 2010, for the first time in history. The first thing Hanna Rosin does after the little introduction is that she tells the readers a story. She uses a kind of a narrative argumentation, in that she tells a real life story of this “Cowboy Sci-entist”, who invented a way for the parents to decide whether they want a girl or a boy. The story is told with a grain of humour, in that the Cowboy is described in a very