Challenging and Reenforcing Stereotypes
For this activity, I worked with a partner to research different stereotypes, then creating a list with examples of media that challenge or reenforce them. This will help me to better understand the stereotypes, as well as how directors choose to present them. It will also help me so I can explain how my film project challenged or reenforced certain stereotypes in my creative critical responses.
Patriarchy:
Reinforcing
Mathew McConaughey in the movie Wolf of Wall Street plays a role of a man that sees himself better than everyone else. He sees himself as better than woman and they are simply a body he can use.
Challenging
Gal Gadot plays Wonder Woman in Justice League. In this movie we are shown the birthplace of Wonder Woman where, a community of woman who perceive men as weak and fragile in comparison to themselves as a higher society.
Feminism:
Reinforcing
Wonder Woman as a character plays a large role in feminism as a powerful woman who breaks the standards of patriarchy. She shows woman can be strong as well and shows that woman should have the equality they deserve.
Challenging
In the movie Moana the character Maui (a man) sang many times that Moana (the girl) is in capable of doing much because she is just girl and a princess and not God, so she is incapable of doing anything. As hard as Moana tries, she is continuously put down by Maui.
Multiculturalism:
Reinforcing
The movie Bend It Like Beckham is a movie that shows a soccer team full of different cultures and races playing together on the same team with the same goals and intentions.
Challenging
Full house is a show with the main characters all appearing to be the same race and of similar culture. This challenges multiculturalism because it doesn't involve a cast of differing cultures and races.
Classism:
Reinforcing
In the movie Great Gatsby only upper and some wealthy middle classes were invited to the parties that Gatsby threw. All the people invited were successful and lived in better communities and housing.
Challenging
In the movie Coach Carter, they challenge classism with a group of lower-class boys on a basketball team. They are tried to be put down, but they push through diversity and become a successful team.
Changing Attitudes Towards Disability:
Reinforcing
Wonder is a movie about a boy who has disabilities that enters school and is unfairly treated until it shown his positive effects he can have on people
Challenging
In peanut butter falcon, Zak, a man with down syndrome is put down and told he is not able to live out his dreams of becoming a wrestler, so he runs away.
Ageism:
Reinforces
Young Sheldon is a film focused on a young boy who is very intelligent. Throughout the show he is put down because he is young and isn't perceived as young.
Challenging
The Bucket List is a movie that shows 2 old men that are in the hospital and escape to fulfill their dreams of everything they wanted to do before death
Racism:
Reinforces
The movie Jackie Robinson shows the hard life of the first African American baseball player and the prejudice he faces as he makes his first MLB appearances.
Challenging
Going in style where a morgan freeman and two other actors are treated equally throughout the film. Where the actor race doesn't affect the character in the movie.