Media Savvy Youth: Challenging Pop Culture Messages that Contribute to Sexual Violence. Male Bashing on TV. Warning for our male readers: The following article contains big words and complex sentences.
It might be a good idea to have a woman nearby to explain it to you. It’s been a hard day. Your assistant at work is out with the flu and there is another deadline fast approaching. Your wife is at a business conference, so you have to pick up your son at daycare, make dinner, clean the kitchen, do a load of laundry, and get Junior to bed before you can settle down on the sofa with those reports you still need to go over. Strong female portrayals counteract negative effects of violent media for young adults. Men and women are less likely to experience negative effects to sexual violent media when watching a positive portrayal of a strong female character, even when that character is a victim of sexual violence.
Christopher Ferguson, Assistant Professor at Texas A&M International University, surveyed 150 university students in a controlled environment in a recent study published in the Journal of Communication. Each participant screened a variety of TV shows that portrayed women in different lights when it came to sexual violence. The results showed that men and women had less anxiety and negative reactions when viewing television shows that depicted a strong female character rather than a submissive one. Past research has been inconsistent regarding the effects of sexually violent media on viewer's hostile attitudes toward women. Much of the previous literature has conflated possible variables such as sexually violent content with depictions of women as subservient. Media Portrayal of Women. Negative Effects of Media on Women.
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", "Flatten Your Stomach! " Westminster College: a private comprehensive liberal arts college in Salt Lake City, UT, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs, including business, nursing, education and communication. Female Body Image and the Mass Media: Perspectives on How Women Internalize the Ideal Beauty Standard Sociocultural standards of feminine beauty are presented in almost all forms of popular media, barraging women with images that portray what is considered to be the "ideal body.
" Such standards of beauty are almost completely unattainable for most women; a majority of the models displayed on television and in advertisements are well below what is considered healthy body weight. Mass media's use of such unrealistic models sends an implicit message that in order for a woman to be considered beautiful, she must be unhealthy. The mindset that a person can never be "too rich or too thin" is all too prevalent in society, and it makes it difficult for females to achieve any level of contentment with their physical appearance. Female Body Image Concern over weight and appearance related issues often surfaces early in females' development, and continues throughout the lifespan. Cultivation Theory. How the Media Define Masculinity. In Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity, Jackson Katz and Jeremy Earp argue that the media provide an important perspective on social attitudes – and that while the media are not the cause of violent behaviour in men and boys, they do portray male violence as a normal expression of masculinity. [1] In 1999, Children Now, a California-based organization that examines the impact of media on children and youth, released a report entitled Boys to Men: Media Messages About Masculinity.
The report argues that the media’s portrayal of men tends to reinforce men’s social dominance. The report observes that: A more recent study found similar patterns in how male characters were portrayed in children’s television around the world: boys are portrayed as tough, powerful and either as a loner or leader, while girls were most often shown as depending on boys to lead them and being most interested in romance. [3] [1] Earp, Jeremy and Jackson Katz.
MediaSmarts. Www.annekesmelik.nl/TheCinemaBook.pdf. Feminism. Feminism, in the broadest sense, refers to a political movement directed towards the emancipation of women from cultural stereotypes which have always served to denigrate and disparage them.
This movement is furthermore concerned with the exploration of how femininity (or better still, womanhood) might be reconceived once these stereotypes have been abolished. Much progress has been made over the course of the past two centuries, but much more work still needs to be done. At present, this feminist work is being carried out in two separate but related areas. The first area is that of political activism. Here, feminists continue to lobby for the personal and professional rights and recognition historically denied them. The second area of feminist work--the one that will concern us more directly in this discussion--is the area of scholarly critique. Classic Hollywood cinema, Mulvey effectively demonstrates, forcefully incorporates--and so helps to perpetuate--this tendency.
Briseis in Troy and Stockholm syndrome - Reviews. Far from being a feisty embodiment of female empowerment, Briseis in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy seems more of a victim in a Stockholm syndrome-type relationship.
LucindaE traces how the ancient 'war prize' story has been transformed into a consensual romantic arrangement to please contemporary audiences LucindaE, 29 June 2011 I love a tacky epic, with hackneyed script, cardboard characters, absurd costumes, anomalies and general nonsense. When I finally got round to seeing the 2004 film Troy by Wolfgang Petersen I expected to enjoy it, reputed as it is to have all these features. Sometimes I did laugh out loud.