Christine Lee Reel Research: Screen and Scholarship 3/11/2012 Legally Blonde: Feminist Film Theory Feminism is a movement that has had a great impact in the world of film‚ and how we interpret it. During the second wave of feminism that occurred throughout the United States‚ feminist scholars began developing and applying more theories‚ that arose during this movement‚ to the way they analyzed film. The various tactics and topics that are contained under the umbrella of feminist film theory are
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Crit 25 April 2011 Annotated Bibliography Feminism in the Legally Blonde Movie Duo Hersey‚ Eleanor. "Love and Microphones: Romantic Comedy Heroines as Public Speakers." Journal of Popular Film & Television 34.4 (2007): 146-59. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Apr. 2011. Hersey’s article focuses on the heroines’ public speaking in Bridget Jones’s Diary‚ Never Been Kissed‚ Miss Congeniality‚ The Princess Diaries‚ and Legally Blonde. Hersey addresses the feminist debate about whether or not romantic
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Blurring the ’Male Gaze’ "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is a 1953 Musical-Comedy released by 20th Century Fox‚ directed by Howard Hawks and starring Marilyn Munroe and Jane Russell; the two greatest sex symbols of the era. The camera’s point of view is that of the ’male gaze’‚ where women are regarded as objects of fascination and the men are assumed to have a position of power. Hawks shows how it can be easily hijacked by females smart enough to control‚ manipulate and ultimately blur the ’male gaze’
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When it was written in 1925‚ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes‚ by Anita Loos was heralded as a tremendous novel. It was seen as cutting edge and insightful‚ yet somewhat risqué in its portrayal of Lorelei Lee and her escapades. I can see how this may have been thought at that time‚ seeing as how women were looked at in such a different way then they are currently. The fact that a women with as little know-how as Lorelei can manipulate men the way that she does‚ leaves no question as to who is the superior
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corridor and are wearing almost prison-style uniforms. The corridor has TVs installed after every few steps and it seems the group is being taken to a large auditorium where they are addressed through a gigantic screen by the leader. At this point‚ a blonde woman running in bright clothes presents a stark contrast to the scene being played out. She is being chased by guards wearing plastic helmets. While the man on the screen continues his speech‚ the woman runs towards the auditorium holding a sledgehammer
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skin). Hair She’s got long blonde curly hair. (=Her hair is long‚ blonde and curly.) red She’s got She’s got (Also suntanned‚ olive-skinned‚ pale-skinned.) wavy hair. (=Her hair is red and wavy.) straight hair. (=Her hair is short and straight.) spiky hair. (=Her hair is dark and spiky.) short She’s got dark She’s got shoulder-length hair. He’s blond. (=He’s got blonde hair.) A blonde = a blonde woman. He’s got a receding hairline
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girl which can be so demining to younger girl’s sense of self. The part in the book where Claudia tears apart the baby dolls should show the readers how blonde‚ blue eyed children are portrayed into everyone’s minds. Even now if you go to a middle school or a high school the “perfect” girl could easily be looked at as the popular‚ skinny‚ blonde hair‚ blue eyed girl. The thought that this is how people should look can make a dent in younger children’s self esteem. That video that we watched about
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realized. How many times have you heard a joke about blondes being Dumb? Too many times. When we start expecting certain group members to behave‚ think‚ or feel a certain way‚ based on hasty generalization‚ we are stereotyping. When children are born they start off with no opinion at all‚ but as they get older they start to form opinions on what they have learned from their parents‚ friends‚ and peers. There are many types of stereotypes. All blondes are dumb and Glasses mean intelligence. This is ridiculous
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this stereotype‚ such as dumb blonde and cookie cutter blonde — implying that normalized blonde looks and standard perceived intelligence are characteristics of all blondes. Jokes about stereotypical dumb people have been going around since the seventeenth century and only the wording and targeted groups have changed. Blondes can also be stereotypically described as clueless or clumsy. Before my hair got darker‚ people would think that I was dumb because I was blonde. I changed their minds by getting
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In the story “Blonde” by Katherin Min‚ a young girl named Jean struggles with her self image as she doesn’t see herself meeting the beauty standard that society had created. The world she is living in is telling her that she is not what they see as beautiful. You can see this in how she see’s the girls in the media like Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Temple becoming famous and wealthy‚ as well as a Barbie doll advertised as being the ideal girl. Along with this‚ the people in her community like her
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