Gaze and Identification of Thelma & Louise The film Thelma and Louise directed by Ridley Scott is an example of the evolution of female gender role in the classical cinema. Thelma and Louise, influenced by the feminist movement, showed the audience a new non-stereotypical road movie. In the film, Thelma and Louise are depicted as two women that tired of their monotonous lives decide to go on a trip looking for adventure. Not as planned, the two women get involved in a murder and by running away, they enter into a chain of events impossible to get out. The film Thelma & Louise not only showed the liberation of women in an owned-by-men society but it also changed the traditional patriarchal form of the cinema.
Hollywood’s Whores Music has always been an inspirational outlet for self expression and as a way to let go of suppressed feelings—many of which are not so pleasant. Various songs in the modern rock genre always come to mind when controversies arise in Hollywood. The band Papa Roach is no exception. Songwriter and Papa Roach band singer Jacoby Shaddix introduced the explicit song Hollywood Whore in 2008 and a music video for the song in middle October of the year. The song, directed to various celebrity women, presents today’s modern woman as scandalous, with an unsung claim of reevaluation of oneself and purity needs to be reintroduced in the media.
The initial scenes in the film exemplify the hostile attitudes between all the different cultural groups. Soft non-diegetic music reflects the strong familial bond between Eva and a friend of the same cultural background, similar to the relationship of Celia and Rosalind. The music changes to rap as other gang members of a different ethnicity attack. Similar to the character Rosalind, Ms G acts also as a catalyst, but for her English class. Rosalind and Ms Gruwell both refer to other texts, Intertextuality is used as, Rosalind refers classical mythology when coaching Orlando, “The foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos.
The strongest sense of reality that I gained after watching Iron Jawed Angels is the ability of women to make an impact on other women. It is this contagious feeling among women suffragists that hold them together through various difficulties. For example, Alice Paul’s public demonstration for women’s voting right eventually even gained the support from a foreign-accented lady who initially objected to this movement. This contagious feeling is also shown through public parade, hunger strike, and ultimate success in the passage of Nineteenth Amendment. When one of the suffragist fell down because of extreme fatigue, when public parade and demonstration is physically disturbed by males, when suffragists are being force-fed in the prison, none of the suffragists budged on their stands, instead, they are held together even stronger by this contagious feeling among them.
The movie had the potential to be a lot more impactful if the roles were taken more seriously. With that being said, there were characters that were played incredibly. Actress Melissa Joan Hart did an incredible job allowing the audience to truly feel her struggle and her pain that came along with enduring such a breaking point in life. All Grace Wesley (Melissa Joan Hart) knew and believed in was being torn apart and discouraged by her peers, colleagues, and it was Melissa who played Grace Wesley so impeccably that truly allowed the audience to put themselves in her shoes. Despite a few shortcomings in the film, God’s Not Dead 2 is a relatable, at some points quite comedic, and most importantly an inspiring film.
While it may seem that cheerleaders are merely standing on the sidelines providing eye candy for sports predominately male eyes, they are much more. Cheerleading is a sport that requires extreme physical fitness, skills obtained through hours of practice, and fierce competition seen amongst rival squads. The extreme physical fitness that cheerleading entails is easily recognized in the amount of body movements, flexibility, and steady balance required to accomplish even the quickest routines. The simplest kick requires strength in agility and balance often beyond normal measures. A single “cheer” routine consists of numerous stretches, dance movements, kicks that reach above heads, flips, jumps several feet off of the ground and solid catching.
Her style and body language portrays her attitude to life and people which reflect back to her genre of music that is Pop and pop rock. Her hit singles, ‘ Fear’ , ‘ F**** *** ‘ spawned mostly in Europe and because of her ‘ freedom of speech’ attitude Allen and alongside, Amy Winehouse have been credited with starting a process that led to the media- proclaimed "year of the women" in 2009 that has seen five female artists making music of "experimentalism and fearlessness long" nominated for the Mercury Prize Back. , Lily Allen is often seen in gossip magazines flashing cameras and people watching. Some artists feel that they need to produce and share every aspect of their life to gain publicity for their music and other work with their fans and critics through the use of interviews and stories in magazines. For example, in the front page opposite, ‘SEXY BEAST LILY ALLEN & HER WICKED, WICKED WAYS...’ may show Lily Allen as more of a sex kitten than a person and go into detail about her relationships and actions.
One woman in particular took the time to live amongst the people, teach the children, and create a documentary about their rugged lives. This documentary was made to exploit the hardships that the children of Calcutta face, as well as to make a change in the children’s lives. Born Into Brothels is an attention grabbing documentary in many ways. It invites people into a part of the world that is sadly their own, but one in which they know very little about. Through the work of a photojournalist from New York, the audience sees the lives of a group of children who are born, growing up in and intimately connected to the (what we know of as) hardships brothel-life in India.
The woman on our poster included Shannon Miller, Sonja Henie, Billie Jean King, Mia Hamm, and Babe Didrikson. We included women from different eras to exemplify how women have been battling for their time to shine in sports since the beginning of the 19th century. Babe Didrikson Zahaias, born in 1911, won three olympic gold medals and thirty-one LPGA titles. She was an all-American basketball player and broke her own world record in the javelin throw. Babe was named the Greatest Female Athlete of the First half of the
Basketball vs. Professional Wrestling Professional wrestling is not a sport, its entertainment. In what All-American sport can skin-tight spandex be worn and women flaunt giant biceps, while brandishing names such as Disco Inferno or Manna the Headhunter and still are adored by a mass audience? The dramatically choreographed sport entertains an audience of violence-starved fans who covet moves, such as the coined "People's Elbow". In fact, wrestling rises emotion from almost every viewer the industry draws in. Whether the emotion is intrigue, or pure disgust, this form of entertainment relies on the audiences' reactions, nonetheless.