That's exactly what Madonna attempts to do when she appropriates and commodifies aspects of black culture. Needless to say this kind of fascination is a threat. It endangers. Perhaps that is why so many of the grown black women I spoke with about Madonna had no interest in her as a cultural icon and said things like, "The bitch can't even sing." It was only among young black females that I could find die-hard Madonna fans.
There was nothing that jumped out to me about him except that you could tell he was a “good” character. Grace Kelly’s character, Ms. Freemont, is one of the more interesting characters to me. I notice throughout the film she is wearing very classy, elegant clothes. In the beginning of the film however, she wears black clothing and then once she starts to understand Jeffries and believe that a murder has taken place her clothes are light or neutral. The black clothing in the beginning gives me the impression of someone strong and almost stubborn.
Miranda lives in New York with her husband and son. Her husband cheats on her and therefore she moves out and buys an apartment downtown. Charlotte lives in New York to with her husband and her daughter who they have adopted because they couldn’t get pregnant. But later on in the movie she gets pregnant. Carrie, who is the main character, is an author and has written some books mostly about “love”.
Throughout the movie XXY, I learned that Alex’s condition was not accepted by her peers, as well as by her family. In the short documentary we watched in class, the individual was very open with her sexuality, and was very accepted by her peers. In the movie, Alex’s parents questioned whether or not sexual reassignment surgery would be the best option, and whether it would give Alex a more socially normal life. But, who is to say that because a person possesses both sexual organs, they are not normal? When it comes to sexuality, the variances can be small to great, with some people feeling as though they are born into the wrong
Cofer also talks a little about how the movies portray Puerto Rican and Latin Woman. It’s the main reason why we Americans automatically stereotype Puerto Rican and Latin women; it’s all we have seen, in the movies, so we don’t really know what the Puerto Rican or Latin culture is really like. The other main point Cofer makes is that even though she had a hard time when she was growing up she still became successful and that any one can do the same. We just have to turn all the negative into a positive and keep on living. I liked this article and I strongly agree with it.
In the original story, the immigrants really do look different from the rest of the population. But Silver's Mrs. Kavarsky is far more attractive than the slovenly, "scraggy little woman" with warts on her face and her hair in disarray, whom Cahan describes, and her Mamie is also less Semitic-looking than Cahan's character. Thus the film imagery tends to undercut the anguish and self-hatred Jewish women felt (and which they frequently expressed in immigrant literature) when they realized they would never be considered beautiful by Anglo-Saxon standards. For the most part, however, Silver's script differs in only a few minor details from the original story line. Her main modifications have been in terms of emphasis, most of them revealing strong feminist underpinnings.
Maxim was staying at the same hotel as they were when she catches his eye and they end up having lunch together. After knowing her for only a few weeks, Maxim proposes marriage. She accepts and he takes her back to his ancestral estate of Manderley. The new Mrs. de Winter begins hearing about Rebecca, Maxim's first wife, who drowned in a cove near Manderley the previous year. Soon thereafter she feels like she will never truly be accepted Rebecca's devoted housekeeper, the sinister Mrs. Danvers, is still in charge of Manderley, and she frightens and intimidates her new mistress.
In “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason, we are introduced to 34-year-old Norma Jean and Leroy Moffit, A married couple since the age of 18. The story portrays a dysfunctional marriage, caused by the death of their newborn infant Randy. Now 16 years later, Norma is finally going through changes that enable her to find herself. Which inevitably causes the end of her marriage. We observe these changes in her, as she tries to improve herself, her unhappiness with Leroy’s constant presence, and her inability to communicate with Leroy.
Her agenda are to use man for money and anything else she need to look glamour and to survived. Like, most parent ask their self why many teenage dress like, ‘hoochie-mom’. Are we considering them as ‘hoochie-mom’ or are they acting like a prostitute or maybe, they may be the fastest who are wearing sexy clothes. Many of them get on face book with a picture of them self being half dress holding some type of alcohol bottle to show that they are sexy. Most teenage tell about their sexy life and taking picture with their boyfriend kissing just to be cool.
The movie “Stepford Wives” which is directed by Frank Oz is about Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) a successful TV producer. After she is fired from her job some mental problmes occurs and she and her family move to a new place called “Stepford” to make her recover from the mental breakdown. The women in Stepford spent all their time doing houseworks, gardening and such things and they all seem “perfect wives” for their husbands. After some time Joanna, her writer buddy Bobbie (Bette Midler) and Democratic, flamboyant fairy friend Roger (Roger Bart) realise that something is wrong in Stepford and after the change in the personality of Bobbie and Roger, Joanna tries to find out what the problem is. In the movie “Stepford Wives” the issues such as gender, sex discrimination and the role of women are being showed.