westerns mainly played distressed‚ helpless‚ feminine roles; however‚ women commonly appear in fighting roles in modern day action movies. Today‚ movies starring provocative‚ strong women characters seem to sell more than movies featuring helpless women characters for the simple reason that sex sells. One of the main stereotypical female characters in present day action movies represents beauty and promiscuity‚ for example the character of Lara Croft in the movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. The other major
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Language censorship in English movies and television Lam Pui Ling UCSI University Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia Lim Woei Hoa UCSI University Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia Ooi Chee Ling UCSI University Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia Abstract This paper examines the issue of censorship in English movies and television programs mostly in the Malaysian context‚ specifically from the language aspect. A simple introduction is given in defining language and censorship. The procedure used to conduct the
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Eric Faden’s created a mashup of many different Disney movies . His fair use tale is not infringing copyright because he was following the fair use laws. He only used portions of the movies‚ he cited all of the movies he took from and gave who created them. Others think that this is invading copyright because he did not get permission from the copyright owner. At the beginning of the fair use tale he states that it was not associated with the Disney studio. But he did not use their work excessively
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and recreated numerous times into stories‚ plays‚ and even movies. Perrault and Disney’s versions of Cinderella took special interest to Louis Bernikow‚ in which she analyzed in her essay “Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies”. In the essay‚ Bernikow shows that “there are two worlds in the Cinderella cartoon‚ one of women‚ one of men” (270)‚ and that the women in the story need men. In “Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies”‚ the women need men to secure social class‚ lift them from
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lacked variety. People will call each other when they see another gay person on TV. The story lines in movies featuring gays and lesbians were controlled and restricted. The whole story was not often told in gay movies. Even after the code was lifted‚ Hollywood still struggled with their portrayal of gays‚ the “proud sissies” and the “regular gays” who were not as flamboyant. In today’s movies‚ those issues are still prevalent. Gay scenes are laced with comedy and as a form of punishment. There
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families in Disney movies. Four main themes were identified: (1) family relationships are a strong priority‚ (2) families are diverse‚ but the diversity is simplified‚ (3) fathers are elevated‚ while mothers are marginalized‚ and (4) couple relationships are created by “love at first sight‚” are easily maintained‚ and are often characterized by gender-based power differentials. These four main themes can be problematic because they are apparent in almost all the Disney movies and causes to form stereotypes
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Young children are acutely impressionable and the toys they play with and movies they watch as adolescents determine their ideas of their gender roles in society for the rest of their lives (Bispo and Schmid). Consequently‚ young women who model their lives from the Disney Princesses they played with when they were young could
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Devonne Waters Ron Guthrie EH-101 5 Dec 2012 Attracted to Terror Horror movies are known as adrenaline boosters. People go to see the movie just to boost their heart rates. For example‚ a couple arrives at the movie theatre ready to see the newest Michael Myers movie. At the beginning of the movie tension is built to get the movie viewers ready to meet the main attraction‚ Michael Myers. When he finally comes into the movie the movie viewers’ heart rate starts to rises‚ because they are either
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than your small box television. When you go to the movies you must be on time. You also have to be courteous to others around you and respectful otherwise you could get thrown out. At the movies you do not have a remote to pause in case you need to go to the restroom or ask what is happening in the movie itself. At the movies you do not get to recline in a comfy chair. You must sit properly and make sure you don’t bother others around you. At the movies you have to whisper if you need to talk. Then when
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music videos to commercials to teen movies: one cannot turn on his television without seeing a scantily clad woman or two people engaging in some type of foreplay. Even on game shows there is commonly a female co-host who wears next to nothing. Moreover‚ besides a pornographic movie or a special on HBO‚ one can find more than enough sex in a teen movie. These films contain teenage sex symbols who cannot act more than the "common man." Yet‚ it seems as if these movies are quite popular. They more often
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