How Women Is Misrepresentation

The significance of the title Miss Representation is multi-faceted. The documentary is about women, hence the Miss, and how they are represented by the media. It is also a play on words making the argument that the media misrepresents women. One example of the way that the media misrepresents women presented in the documentary is how women are often sexualized by the media. Women are often seen as objects that cannot be taken seriously.

Another example presented in the documentary is that women should be valuing their beauty more than their intelligence. From the time women are born there is constant bombardment of beauty products and staying youthful. The documentary also presents the fact that women are often shown that the qualities needed to

In the era between the 1920s and 1940s women’s roles in film could be multi- dimensional and women could play different kinds of complex roles in different films. However, they were still presented as some of the same stereotypes in these different films. Women in today’s films are often portraying these stereotypes also but tend to be stuck in the same type of role over and over again. They are overly sexualized and not seen as actual complex human beings. They tend to have films that only revolve around men’s lives and even when the films are about women, below the surface we can notice that the women’s lives often revolve around men, whether it is trying to gain their love, having their children or even helping them when they are the hero. It is also mentioned how the women who are heroines are also overtly sexualized to be pleasing to the male viewer and show the beauty standards to women. This leaves women who are actresses between a rock and a hard place because they may want to be good role models for young girls but the roles they have the opportunity to play are not that. They end