Gender Stereotypes In The Film The Advengers
A media product, comprising of a limited selection of manufactured ideas, are not identical or related to a lived experience, it is not reality. The media product manufactured, and thus its form, is merely founded on the values of the producers and, in turn, the values of the selected society and the culture there. This constructed version is not usually identified as a presentation but a representation, a media representation depicting a likeness or a constructed image. These representations can take form of individual people (such as Iron-Man in the film The Advengers, 2002), social groups (a subgroup comprising of anything like gender, racial or age), ideas, or even events (such as The Great Depression). Or the construction of representations
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Certain aspects such as traits or characteristics are focused and emphasised on and then exaggerated. Simultaneously, an evaluation is taking place and the audience presented with these stereotypes are invited to make a judgement. These judgements are often based on prejudice. However, the repetition established on these formed stereotypes over time allows audiences to perceive them as ‘natural’. Basically, a stereotype could be interpreted as an overgeneralised, clichéd image, used repetitively to establish a pattern among texts such as films, magazines or television programs. This form of representation is extremely judgemental. For example, one recognized female stereotype present would be the ‘dumb blonde’, portraying commonly that women can have brains or beauty but not both and a common male stereotype is the nerd (Bowles, 2014). Stereotypes are, therefore, terms generally used to define the fixed qualities or traits and how these may be attributed to certain groups in the way that various media, including films, represent them. An extensive list of stereotypes can be formed and provided by reviewing any history, they are not just limited to the action hero, the jock and the housewife (Hartley, 2005). However, this essay shall derive an analysis of the nerd stereotype presented from recent texts in the film
Certain aspects such as traits or characteristics are focused and emphasised on and then exaggerated. Simultaneously, an evaluation is taking place and the audience presented with these stereotypes are invited to make a judgement. These judgements are often based on prejudice. However, the repetition established on these formed stereotypes over time allows audiences to perceive them as ‘natural’. Basically, a stereotype could be interpreted as an overgeneralised, clichéd image, used repetitively to establish a pattern among texts such as films, magazines or television programs. This form of representation is extremely judgemental. For example, one recognized female stereotype present would be the ‘dumb blonde’, portraying commonly that women can have brains or beauty but not both and a common male stereotype is the nerd (Bowles, 2014). Stereotypes are, therefore, terms generally used to define the fixed qualities or traits and how these may be attributed to certain groups in the way that various media, including films, represent them. An extensive list of stereotypes can be formed and provided by reviewing any history, they are not just limited to the action hero, the jock and the housewife (Hartley, 2005). However, this essay shall derive an analysis of the nerd stereotype presented from recent texts in the film