Female pirates

The Societ cinema in the 1960s sees a shift from the portrayal greatness of society to the focus on an individual. Larisa Shepitko’s Wings (1966) is about an identity crisis of a female war veteran. It depicts the ambivalent treatment of women in the patriarchal society, in which women in authority experience greater freedom in wartime and are expected to assume a domestic role in peacetime. The film shows the contradictions experienced by the protagonist, Nadezhda Petrukhina, through a…

The first two in-class movies we watched each depicted a struggle concerning gender and the appropriateness of behavior for each sex. The two movies’ main characters were of similar age but different sexes and lived in very different environments. The first movie tells the story of its title-named main character, “Billy Elliott”. Billy, an eleven-year-old boy is characterized as energetic, caring, and loyal. In the film’s opening, we are shown his love for dancing as a foreshadowing of events…

White FTVE-210-5204 July 13, 2017 Compare and contrast the underlying themes in a film required for the class with a non required of your choice? The film "Bend it Like Beckham" mirrors the teen classic "She's the Man" by using strong, determined female leads to depict women’s oppression in male dominated sports in a male dominated society. In the comedic-drama “Bend it like Beckham” Jess an English-Indian, tries to balance her life surrounding the conflicting western and eastern cultures.…

While there are some superficial similarities between the two, the differences between the cultures of the United States of America and Japan are striking. Using Geert Hofstede’s six dimension analysis as a guide, we shall see that there are notable differences in the national character of both countries. Masculinity/Femininity Dimension First, there is one area where both countries score closely, namely on the Masculinity vs Femininity Dimension. Both have above average levels of the…

The female monster in “Beowulf,” Grendel’s mother, depicts paranormal behaviors using physical violence and force to solve an issue at hand. The behavior of Grendel’s mother is masculine and demonstrates that she is unable to solve conflict with words, but instead uses action and violence. The female monster displays this unexpected behavior by engaging in the customs that are typically assigned to a…

Set in an all-female jungle paradise, Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” music video features dancing, rapping, fruit, skimpy outfits, and endless bum-shaking. According to Billboard, music videos quickly became an integral part of pop culture after their debut on television in the early 1980s. In her article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey explains how “cinema satisfies a primordial wish for pleasurable looking” (17) by focusing “attention on the human form” (17). Nicki Minaj’s…

For example, Isabella Rossellini talks about how shrimp prepare to mate in her video “Bon Appetite- shrimp”. In this video she states how female shrimp shed their outer shell and get “naked” in preparation for sex as humans do. Furthermore, one major similarities between humans and nature is the act of masturbation. Many animals masturbate such as monkeys, Elephants, Walruses, squirrels, dogs…

“Never ever accept ‘Because you are a woman’ as a reason for doing or not doing anything”. To me, this quotation by author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie perfectly summarizes the Walk Tall talk by Jannette Taylor. This quote explains that though someone may be a woman, she can do anything she wants to do; she can do anything that is acceptable for a man to do. She continued by saying that life is too short to not be yourself; life is too short to not take; life is too short to not strive for what you…

In today’s society, women are expected to have all of the rights that men do, and those rights are supposed to be equal. However, this idea is preposterous to some males. This was especially true in the 1980’s, where women’s rights were not as much of a norm as it is in 2017. This period of time, precisely 1986, is when Margaret Atwood wrote her dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel describes a society in which women are stripped of all of their rights and forced into social classes…

Ad Analysis Today advertisements for women's clothing and makeup target the insecurities of young woman. Companies use the appearance of young, fit, beautiful models to persuade consumers that their appearance is insufficient to societal standards without their product. The ad that I have selected is an advertisement for mascara put out by L'oreal Paris in 2011. This static ad while it is effective is unethical. It uses snob appeal and causes woman to compare themselves to the model, Gwen…