Tuesday, 9 December 2008

Book Research
"Degrading and trivialising views of women"- Dyer, Gillan (1987) "introduction" in Baehut, Helen and Dyer, Gillian, Boxed In: Women and Television, London: Pandora

"viwers were encouraged to identify with the protaganist who tended to be a man" Mulvey, Laura (1975) "visual pleasure and narrative Cinema"

"Highlighting a womens to-be-looked-at-ness"

Wolf argues that "Women's bodies and female sexuality have become commodities and the consequences of this are mental and physical illness, stravation diets and eating disorders"Dr. Work

Alice Embree argued that 'women were seen as bodies, not people (1970, 206)"
Feminism, Femininity and popular culture by joanne howan (02)

'Hollywood films are a narrative cinema and the narrative is usually told via a male perspective' mulvey
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze09.html


Freud argues the 'men unconsciously see women as castrated and this causes them to feel anxiety which is why fertishization objects are used in order to reduce anxiety.'

O'Sullivan,Tim, Jewkes,Yvonne (1997-reprinted in 2004): The Media Studies Reader,Arnold, Edward- whole book relevant as information on womens career representation and useful to my text as Angleina Joli represented as a more superior perosn then the men in the film 'wanted' 08.

“Only 3% of women were represented as housewives as their main occupation”. 92-93 Legates, Marlene (2001): In Their Time. Great Britain: Routledge.

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