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This 10 page paper examines the roles of women and focuses on two writings that highlight notions of patriarchy. Examples from film and television are included. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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strong female figures and believes it. However, there is another side to the story. Women also go to the movies. They see female figures being raped and beaten. They see
women undervalued. Even when women are in good roles, they are viewed to be somewhat superficial and man-made. Indeed, men dictate how women look and most women buy into this
notion. Film and television and other elements of pop culture reinforce the patriarchy that is the United States of America. Authors Laura Mulvey and Susan Bordo examine issues of this
nature. A good example of what the authors are talking about is that on ABCs Desperate Housewives, the vain Gabby finds out that her obese daughter is not really
hers and her real baby was switched with another at birth. When she finds that her biological daughter is slim and interested in fashion like she is, she finds herself
drawn to this child she did not raise, while pushing her chubby daughter aside. It is an uncomfortable thread in this popular show, but it suggests that people really value
beauty. While it is a woman who so clearly is attached to appearance, it is actually the patriarchal culture that seeds this desire. The Opinions of Laura
Mulvey Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalytic theory to explore cinema in her article entitled "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Mulvey focuses on sex and how females, in the way they
are portrayed, are shown as something that speaks to castration (6). Women can only exist in this context (Mulvey,6). Mulvey duly notes that women are the silent ones where the
men can live out the fantasies that they impose on women (6). Mulvey remarks: " There is an obvious interest in this analysis for feminists, a beauty in its exact
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