http://www.blackfilm.com/20040430/features/catwomantrailer.shtml#trailer
to veiw trailer click the link

5 key word that are relevant to my course work are :

* Laura Mulvey, this is because im going to be talking about feminism and the male gaze theory, it links to my text because it is about a woman superhero and she is there to be gazed at by men but then again is there to be represented as independant person who deosn't need a man .
*Stereotype- cat woman challenges the typical stereotype of a woman.
*Patriarchy- in the film men aren't shown to be dominate it shows women to be dominant which emphasises a matriarchy society.
*Warner Brothers- it is the institution that promoted and marketed Catwoman it is also the instition that produces most of the comic book films,like X-men Batman etc.

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Catwoman. Created in the 1940s for DC Comics, she has progressed a very long way since her inception. She began wearing stylish black dresses of the forties and a black cowl much like Batman’s. She moved onto the small screen in the Batman television show in the 1960s, played first by Julie Newmar and wearing skintight cat suits, if you’ll pardon the pun. From there her look changed forever. Now she appears to wear almost nothing. Her breasts are exaggeratedly large, and her costume appears so tight that every muscle and indentation in her flawless physique is perfectly visible. For example, one can very easily locate her belly button and the curvature of her abdominal muscles. How many women do you know with perfectly spherical breasts? The only things that have stayed the same in her costume since the forties are the cowl with cat ears, high cheekbones and long wavy black hair. I noted the previous differences in Catwoman while reading Trina Robbins’s book, The Great Women Superheroes.

this is a brief paragraph from an essay about women super heroes explaining how they are dressed and what the point of them dressing like this is basically how they are represented and the history of women in comic books

http://www.viciousgrin.com/writings/womencomic.html

im going to mention films like my super ex girlfriend, charlie's angels, and tomb raider which have women as there protagonist .

i read through an interview of Halle Berry and it talks about the character she plays in the film and how successfull she is especially being the first black woman to win the Academy Award for best actress, this would help answer my question as it is focusing on success for women nowadays.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/21/1082530222449.html?from=storyrhs

i found information on theorist such as Andrea Dworkin and Laura Mulvey and i also found information on different sorts of feminism such as Misogyny Post-feminism Masculism Radical feminism Pro-feminism Cultural feminism Male gaze and Marxism.
http://www.mediaed.org.uk/posted_documents/womenrep.html

Media language: a variety of shots are used throughout the film such as closeup medium shot big closeup etc , for example there is a high angled shot of catwoman ( halle berry) and this represents her importance as she is the protagonist in the film. There is also a low angled shot of her for a few seconds as this emphasises that he is vunerable. the edits used such as cuts zoom in and out n fades are really fast especially when there is a fight scene it. the types of sound used is mainly non diegetic, the type of music is rock to fit in with the fight, they also make use of her voice over to inform the audience about what is going on in the film this also lets them identify with her . The film is set in newyork, although there are sets mainly used through out the film of offices her home and the funfair. most of the film is set at night and the colours used are black and blue evil, mystery,and suspense.

Institution:the institution is warner brothers village road show, this means that the film is high budgeted . the film is also made to be a prequel to the batman movies to try and gain its audience. this institution is commercial and you would expect it to be distributed every where, especially as they seem to make alot of action films.

Genre: it is a hybrid because it is an action film with a hint of romance init . it fulfills the audiences expectation because it kind of has a pradictable story line but is also different due to the hero being a female.the director is Pitof and the film has Halle Berry as she is a well known actress in hollywood.

Representation:the films hero and villain are both female which makes the film unique to a certain extent. there are stereotypes e.g. a geeky person wanting to be successful, and a man helping a damsel in distress but these stereotypes are reinforced as the film goes on. it is showing women to be independant and is also giving them a better role in the film as they are usually seen as a sexual object there to satisfy men.

Audience: the targeted audience are males and females aged 15 and plus. maybe middle classed .

Ideology and values:the film is trying to show that women can be just as successfull as men.

Narrative: the film does follow todorov's theory although it seem like it is going to be a circular narrative in the begining. the main theme are life and death .