and fashion industry. However the stereotypes portrayed in the media are mainly the same. There are mainly four stereotypes of women portrayed in the media. The femme fatale is a women who usually uses all of her cunning and sexual attractiveness to gain her independence by flirting and charming other men. The femme fatale occurs in nearly every Hollywood production at one time or the other. The next stereotype is the supermom. The supermom is usually white‚ married‚ middle aged and has
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Blade Runner: Film Noir Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is a “neo”-noir film that includes elements of classic film noir in its setting/environment‚ plot and characterization. Though it can be classified into many different genres‚it is undeniable part of the film noir genre. Though Blade Runner is a sci-fi movie set in the future‚ it features an environment and setting that is ideal for a film noir. It works because these films usually take placein urban landscapes‚ usually in New York‚ San Francisco
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Women in Japanese Theater The history of women in Japanese theater is the history of the social changes that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Actresses at this time progressed from a point where they were not allowed to perform at all to the point where they were celebrated artists. Although it would be intriguing to tackle womens history in the theater across the entire period‚ the source book‚ Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan‚ is so packed with information
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why feminists did not necessarily accept them. We can also look how the secessionist engaged themselves with the female enterprise and visual responses to female emancipation attempts. The men of fin-de-siècle Vienna also created a resurge of the femme fatale image and created a link of psychological hysteria with femininity as a way to retaliate toward women’s rights movement. These protection mechanisms that men produced were a way to control women and give reason for their actions. Needless to say
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Horror films have always been more attractive to the male viewer than to the female viewer. Why is that? Usually horror films mainly present the audience with very graphic mutilation and the raping of females‚ more so than their male counterparts. Horror films have always depicted females as either objects or as the victim of a horrible act. In Linda William’s essay "When the Woman Looks‚" she says that "there is not that much difference between an object of desire and an object of horror as far
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Film noir is a genre based on moods of fate‚ evil‚ and undesirable outcomes. In the film The Big Sleep exemplifies film noir from the visual using the black and dark atmosphere. The genre film noir has a dark downbeat sort of feel to the theme. Film noir is very dramatic and in the movie when a character dies the movie has the orchestra play a dark‚ gloomy‚ grim type of music. The lighting in film noir is also used in the movie. During the car rides the lightening is clear showing what audience should
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behaviour and lifestyle" (Neroni 25). Society dictates that females should embody a role of devoted mother and loving wife to a husband‚ but the femme fatale rejects these norms. This transgression of societal; rules means that she is punished‚ and "her fate usually involves violence" (Neroni 23). Therefore it would appear that the portrayal of the femme fatale is supporting of the existing patriarchal order and gender roles‚ because the woman is punished in the end for stepping out of the confines put
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witch who tricked Odysseus’ men into drinking her potion and turning into swine‚ and Penelope‚ the extremely clever‚ yet loyal wife of Odysseus who outsmarted the suitors for 20 years. Most of these female characters fall under the category of “femme Fatale”‚ Latin for fatal-woman‚ which perfectly portrays their powerfulness and how lethal they are. The most important immortal character in the Odyssey would undoubtedly be Athena‚ who is the daughter of Zeus‚ and the goddess of wisdom‚ battle‚ and
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include terror (both psychological and physical)‚ mystery‚ the supernatural‚ ghosts‚ haunted houses and Gothic architecture‚ castles‚ darkness‚ death‚ decay‚ doubles‚ madness‚ secrets‚ and hereditary curses. The stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants‚ villains‚ bandits‚ maniacs‚ Byronic heroes‚ persecuted maidens‚ femmes fatales‚ madwomen‚ magicians‚ vampires‚ werewolves‚ monsters‚ demons‚ angels‚ fallen angels‚ the beauty and the beast‚ revenants‚ ghosts‚ perambulating skeletons‚ and
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the office that we first saw the private eye in. The room is filled with chairs and well-off looking lamps and other knick-knacks. The private eye is standing in the center of the scene‚ holding hands with a woman who you immediately see as the femme fatale of the film. Half of the room‚ the one with the private eye standing in‚ is darker than the half that the woman is standing in‚ distinction made clearer by the fact that the man is wearing black‚ and the woman is dressed in white. The woman is
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