Sunday, January 07, 2007

Detailed essay plan for coursework

Introduction
Should mention:
*women now having active roles rather than passive
*stereotypes of women being reinforced and challenged
*since world war two changes for women
*Dc comics creating women super hero characters
*Warner brothers now known as time Warner worlds largest film and TV producers for entertainment help produce films for dc comics , it first created wonder woman series.

Comparison of catwoman and wonder woman:
Catwoman:
*First appeared on the batman series in 1966
* her character is a stereotype of a helpless (damsel in distress) career orientated woman. First seen as Madonna then the whore. Media studies as and a2 book on women and film.
* stereotype challenged when she becomes catwoman. She save a man. Information on stereotypes and representation of women in the book an introduction to film studies.
*her costume is tight fitting and reveals a lot of flesh
*she uses her sexuality to empower men (femmefatal)
*her weapon which is seen as a phallic object and fetish object. Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. Mention other text such as tomb raider with guns and kill bill Uma Thurman with sword.
* she is being objectified to a certain extent due to the way she is dressed. Should mention Laura Mulvey’s theory of the male gaze. Andrea dworkin theory and disagreeing with it because women don’t get raped just because men watch porn or because women dress tarty.
*character roles subverted and challenged. Hero and villain females. Going against Propp’s character roles theory.
*2 black women have played catwomen, it reflects changes of racial discrimination in society, women can be just as subordinate with men get info from books such as changing women unchanged men. Mention book about action adventure and cinema as it talk about the action babe. Talk about Halle berry playing a super hero in x-men aswell.


Wonder woman:
*she also dresses in tight fitted clothes skimpy clothes.
*she represents patriotic values as she’s literally wearing the American flag.
*as it is produced after the war the villains are Nazi’s.
*they were both produced from the help of Warner brothers.
*her character based on woman of the Amazon, ( a society run by women) but this is seen as a greek myth. This can be linked with patriarchal societies being reinforced.
*she also career a weapon which is her lasso seen as a phallic object.

How war made changes for women in the 20th century in detail.
Women in action films talk about alien, kill bill, Charlie’s angels and Catwomen.
Summarise everything that is said answering how and why they have become more frequent and whether it is successful or not.

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