In the Kingdom of Arendelle, two young princess called Anna and Elsa were very close and used to play together daily. Princess Anna has the power of creating ice and freezing. One day, Elsa accidently hits Anna with her power while they are playing together and almost kills her. Their parents take them to trolls who save Anna’s life, but make her forget her sister’s power. After they go back to their castle, Elsa locks herself in her room from fear of hurting Anna with her power. Their parents die when their ship sinks in the ocean and three years later, Elsa opens again the gates of the castle because it is her coronations’ day. On Elsa’s coronation day, Anna meets prince Hans and she decides to marry him and asks for Elsa’s bless. Elsa does not accept the marriage and gets angry, which makes her lose control over her power and freeze the whole kingdom of Arandelle. Elsa runs to the north mountain and Anna goes after her. While Anna is searching for her sister, she meets the snowman Olaf, the ice salesman Kristoff, and his reindeer Sven.
‘’In the 1970’s the word ‘chick’ was considered an insult by man feminists who believed the term meant women were ‘childlike, delicate, fluffy creatures in need of protection and guidance’ (Ferriss and Young). The feminists of the time believed this was a setback in their movement to make a society that was gender neutral. For post-feminists this term has been used to express solidarity or unity and empower women’.’’ (Par. 1). This paper presents an analysis of women’s role in the movie Frozen.
Frozen starts with a song that ends with ‘’Beware the Frozen Heart’’. Workers sing this song while cutting ice, which symbolically means that men has to break and cut the ...
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... not agree with society’s rules. In his song ‘’Reindeers are Better than People’’ he criticizes people/society. He says that, they will beat you and curse you, just like how they cursed Elsa, and they will cheat you, which is exactly what Hans does to Anna. He ends the song by saying ‘’do not let the frost bite you’’. In other words, do not let the cruelty of corrupted people/society harm your pure nature.
To sum up, Frozen criticizes the traditional women that society wants every girl to be like. It shows how men oppress women. They cheat them using the power that society gave them over women. Yet women do not need men to save them anymore. Their womanhood love is strong enough to protect them. The typical definition of love according to heterosexual relationships is shaken, because it appears that siblings’ love is more powerful and more important.
A large portion of contemporary film and theatre has been lacking in substance. More often than not, we are presented with a “been there, seen that” scenario. One such exception to this rule is Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a film by John Cameron Mitchell that was released in 2001. Set primarily in post-Cold War America, Hedwig is a film that characteristically breaks convention. Our story follows Hedwig, a forgotten and confused homo…trans…well, human being. Growing up in East Berlin during the Cold War, Hansel Schmidt (John Cameron Mitchell) lives what I would call a horrible childhood in the bleak landscape of communist occupied Germany. He falls in love with an American soldier, and undergoes a sex change in order to marry him and leave East Berlin. The operation is botched, leaving him/her as a physical contradiction. Not quite a man, but not yet a woman, Hansel (now Hedwig) has what she describes as an “angry inch.” When describing it in lighter terms, she calls it a “Barbie doll crotch.” Upon arriving in America, the soldier leaves her the same day the Berlin wall comes down. Destroyed, Hedwig spends some time discovering her new self and eventually finds a soul mate in a young boy named Tommy Speck (Michael Pitt). They collaborate musically and romantically, but upon discovering Hedwig’s secret he leaves with all of their music. He becomes a huge rock star, living Hedwig’s dream while simultaneously leaving her in the dust. From then on, Hedwig and her band “The Angry Inch” follow Tommy as he tours the nation while Hedwig tries desperately to gain the notoriety she deserves for her music. Viewing this film through the lens of a feminist gender perspective, I find that Hedwig is a pioneer on the forefront of changing the gende...
Despite the fact that the character of Phyllis as the “tough as nails” perpetual, intentional aggressor is a valid attempt to obliterate the image of women as the oppressed, one interpretation of this role is that she ultimately seems to misrepresent herself, and females in cinema, anyway. Janet Todd, author of Women and Film, states that, “Women do not exist in American film. Instead we find another creation, made by men, growing out of their ideological imperatives”(130). Though these “power girl”characters are strong examples of anything but submissive and sexual females,the...
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In stories, words always hide a message within the text, one just has to pay close attention. In Haruki Murakami’s story The Ice Man, a young woman encounters an ice man at a ski resort, and after some time of dating they got married. Despite their marriage going great, the young woman becomes tired of doing the same thing everyday, which leads them to take a trip to the South Pole; upon arrival her husband suddenly changes, which makes her feel lonelier than ever—but after learning she is pregnant, she knew they would never leave. The story uses literary devices such as figurative language, paradox, symbol, kenning, and aporia throughout the story to show what it’s like when you lose your happiness.
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Disney has portrayed women in movies by the use of animation characters for over a century since the 1900s. There has been a very big change since the early 1900’s to modern day in Disney’s depiction of the personalities of the women, their attitudes and ideologies towards men, and the way they are portrayed in the movies. This progression has had a distinct development, from passive damsels in distress in need of the help of men, to being superheroes. Therefore, the evolution of women in Disney movies will be analyzed through the use of university level feminist essays, as well as a research paper written about gender roles in Disney animation. The evolution will also be analyzed through examination of the clips of the movies themselves.
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Led by Laura Mulvey, feminist film critics have discussed the difficulty presented to female spectators by the controlling male gaze and narrative generally found in mainstream film, creating for female spectators a position that forces them into limited choices: "bisexual" identification with active male characters; identification with the passive, often victimized, female characters; or on occasion, identification with a "masculinized" active female character, who is generally punished for her unhealthy behavior. Before discussing recent improvements, it is important to note that a group of Classic Hollywood films regularly offered female spectators positive, female characters who were active in controlling narrative, gazing and desiring: the screwball comedy.
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The symbol of this story is snow because it is reflecting how becoming an immigrant can be so harsh and hurtful but in the end a beautiful thing as you overcome the struggles. The narrator who shines herself through Yolanda portrays how her life was like when she first became an immigrant. It was a disastrous and hurtful time, b...
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Feminism is a movement that supports women equality within society. In relation to film, feminism is what pushes the equal representation of females in mainstream films. Laura Mulvey is a feminist theorist that is famous for touching on this particular issue of how men and women are represented in movies. Through her studies, she discovered that many films were portraying men and women very differently from reality. She came up with a theory that best described why there is such as huge misrepresentation of the social status quos of male and female characters. She believed that mainstream film is used to maintain the status quo and prevent the realization of gender equality. This is why films are continuously following the old tradition that males are dominant and females are submissive. This is the ideology that is always present when we watch a movie. This is evident in the films from the past but also currently. It is as if the film industry is still catering to the male viewers of each generation in the same way. Laura Mulvey points out that women are constantly being seen as sexual objects, whether it is the outfits they wear or do not wear or the way they behave, or secondary characters with no symbolic cause. She states that, “in traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote it-be-looked-at-ness.”(Mulvey pg. 715). Thus, women are nevertheless displayed as nothing more than passive objects for the viewing pleasure of the audience. Mulvey also points out through her research that in every mainstream movie, there is ...