Male Gaze
Male Gaze was how men looked at women, how women looked at themselves and how women look at each other. To show this, we watched a film clip which showed us that in TV Drama's the woman was less dominant as before she came out she had to be introduced instead of just coming out. Then they had close up's of the female's body, showing that her beauty was there to look at, giving her less power and almost making her look stupid. They used a snake as a phalic object around her body. Although they were trying to show that this female was only there to look at she sure showed and gained back her power when all the men in the room stopped what they were doing to stare at her and would do whatever she said, like they were under her power. She pushed them around and they didn't say or do anything about it.
Traditional Masculinity
Traditional Masculinity was about how men were powerful and violent. They were all aggressive and all wanted to each look like they were better than one another. This was shown in the clip 'Rome' in which we looked at the men out fighting and how they showed their power and aggression to one another. Low angle shots were used to make some characters look more dominant and high angle shots to make some look less important. The editing creates the scene and it is confusing and fast. It was very aggressive and each man was told what to do which shows the violence. They are all powerful as a team, when they work together. The leader is made to look powerful with the low angle shots and when he stands closer to the camera. No pain or weaknesses are shown.
Modern Masculinity
Modern Masculinity shows how men have changed and how our views on them have changed too. Before, we would only see them looking strong, powerful and violent but in this clip we saw them acting in what we would class as a more feminist way. For example we saw each of them, crying and hugging one another, usually this would have been classed as a stereotypical women way to act. We are also shown this from when the man is sitting on the toilet and is looking through a furniture magazine choosing what furniture would suit him and would look nice in his house, usually you would see females acting in this way. It is also shown a lot in the bit where neither of the two men have been in a fight before so they want to fight each other to say that they have done this, which shows that men no longer have fights and are as violent as we used to see them.
Post Feminism
Post Feminism is where we see how the opinion of females being submissive changes and shows how they are actually very important and they are given a strong role. We see this with a Doctor Who clip in which the women saves the Doctor and she does this by using violence. It also puts men down as the Doctor is saying how he doesn't agree on violence and is asking what she is doing. However, it makes the female look independent as she is the one defending. The other female in this scene shows her power over the men as she is beautiful and with their lust towards her, they forget what they are supposed to be doing and are concentrated on her. They were drawn to her beauty which makes the male's look stupid as they have no control which gives the female more power.
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