This week’s blog is focused on my previous blogs, as well as our class discussion. Our class discussed and analyzed Mrs. Representation and The Mask You Live In, we pulled key words and information that was essential to the start of our research projects. The words we highlighted from the film allowed us to create Slug Lines, six-word Memoirs, and Found Poems I made for each film. More specifically I am going to be talking about how in class we re-genre the film “Miss Representation” to get a better feel on the films text, language, and themes.
In class we began analyzing one page of dialog of the film Miss Representation. At first glance there was harsh words being said, about how society views women. There were more negative things to say about women, then there were positive. The film centered around women of power, and in politics degrading and calling them cruel names. I took the negative words to re-genre a slug line, each word was right from the text of Miss Representation. “The rise of punditry in America is added to sexism and biased in the media.” Why are “experts” allowed to objectify women based of what they look like or what their job description is and portray it in the media to allow other men to do the same. I think people are to bias against certain genders and they are taught to be a certain way, and the media only emphasizes it in a negative way. I then made a six-word memoir from the text of the film. “Society failed women, I was fearless.” This short memoir really says it all about the film. Society portrays women in negative ways everyday only to leave women trying to fix themselves, so they can look more beautiful. Everything on the internet, news, and social media is portraying women like a sex object for men. The last three words exemplify how a woman is strong in a world where they aren’t considered “perfect” and where they are only seen as a sex object instead of a powerful person. Lastly, I wrote a found poem from the text of Miss Representation. De-humanizing the word liberal All women want is to be equal They try to sell us Using explicit images of us But I’m standing tall I will not crawl This poem exemplifies how women just want to be equal to men, work the same jobs, hold positions in government, and simply walk down the street without being looked at like a sex object. The media is portraying women in explicit images all over social media to just make money, but do not realize who they are hurting. Women are seen as a man’s property and are not seen as a human being.
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Ashley
4/9/2019 04:43:35 am
I like the six word memoir you created I think it shares a strong story.
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Katey
4/9/2019 04:47:11 am
I really like your Found Poem for Miss Representation it’s really good.
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