SOC 932 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Martial Arts, Melodrama, Equal Voice
13 Dec 2017
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The body and objectification: hollywood, power and the gaze. Hollywood films bear a profound role in our lives and help shape our ideas about social, cultural, political and economic issues. Films are loaded with messages that audiences consume, interpret, reject and endorse. These messages contribute to our perception of the world, and in relation to this lecture, our perception of gender, power the body. Women"s entertainment industry based representations (popular culture/hollywood) not just economically and politically oppressed, but they are also symbolically oppressed. The university of sc examined top 100 grossing films and found that out of 4342 speaking characters, only 32. 8% are female. Females are not only infrequent, but when present are stereotyped and sexualized and reinforced through genre conventions present in films such as romantic comedies. Genres are constructed through these conventions, which can reinforce ideas about gender. Genres have traditionally been central to preserving female and male stereotypes in classical.
