Monday, February 26, 2018

feministfrequency

 

In this video the 'feministfrequency' analyzes the hunger games and the roll of Jennifer Lawrence and how she is portrayed in the book and movie. She explains how Catniss is a strong smart responsible young women. feministfrequency explains how Katniss is not "reduced to her gender" and is not sexualized nor objectified in the book. She focuses on how Katniss is a strong female and breaking hollywoods stereotypes of women, saying she holds "many feminists values."

After watching this video it definitely opened my eyes. Feministfrequency made me aware that hollywood typically does sexualize women and reduce them to their gender. When she said "reduced to her gender" it showed me that a lot of movies do this and strip a lot of women's characters down to stereotypes about them. I agree with her in some of these areas but I also think she can be over analyzing in other areas. I think all throughout Hollywood there are stereotypes even within men. This video definitely made me more aware that all movies have characteristics like this which embellish certain stereotypes to get points across.
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  1. Lance EatonFebruary 27, 2018 at 6:13 PM

    Food for thought here, Robbie.

    Yes, Hollywood does this in general--no argument there. The problem is that historically and through the present, the range of representational possibilities like Catniss have been severely limited for women, whereas with men (particularly white men), they have literally been portrayed in so many different ways that it speaks to a systematic difference of how Hollywood treats men vs. women (this too has come out in how they pay men or women or people of color as well as in the #MeToo movement).

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