Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nell Shipman, Photoplay, The Good Girls
27 Feb 2016
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If you type celebrity into google image, you get primarily female actors, singers etc. Google suggest you may also want to search celebrities with no clothes -if u do, the men almost entirely disappear. If you specify male, the results are almost all clothed. What does this suggest about our cultural attitudes toward female celebrities? wanted for their bodies, not for what they"ve actually achieved. women achieve celebrity for are not necessarily the same as male achieved celebrity. Internet-studio sites, star sites, fan sites, social networking (esp twitter) Tv-eg etalk daily, but also news and talk shows, reality tv. Photo editing eg photoshop- ex: changing colour of skin tone, bodies slimmer. star system- from pas to publicists. Photoshop can also be used negativelyoj simpson photoshopped to be much darker than his actual skin colour. Has racist stereotypes as black men being more aggressive. Australian politicians used a photoshop to denounce image of refugee.
