Movies And Gender Roles
Since the start of time, gender roles have been crucial to society. Gender in a way assigns roles for individuals. In most cases, how they identify to a specific gender will set a precedent for them to follow for the rest of their lives. Those who choose to deviate from their expected roles in society are looked down upon. For the most part, we are accustomed to this idea that society expects women to act differently from men. While it is not a quite battle, nor a submissive one, for what is it worth, people have still found a way to identify themselves within these boundaries. However, identifying themselves does not mean that they are obedient to a certain set of expectations. Yet, we find ourselves surrounded by movies, music, etc. that
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While these movies present advanced technology that can interact with humans, understand any command, and do everything a human can do, there are still traces of gender inequality. In the article Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age, Claudia Springer explains “the love affair between humans and machines” (Springer). Springer’s choice of diction sparks an interest in this topic because she describes the relationship as a love affair. By explaining it as a love affair, it automatically makes the individual think of a relationship between two people involving feelings. Within her article, Springer references to multiple movies that depict what she describes as “techno-erotic imagery” (Springer). Springer brings up a point within her article that this paper will elaborate further on as it discusses the movie. As Springer explains, when we watch these movies about artificial intelligence we are intrigued by the steps taken to give us an insight to the future. This aspect of the movies is intriguing to us, which will cause us to overlook the gender inequalities. While we may see a robot that can do anything …show more content…
The overemphasized theme in Videodrome is sex. While the movie is trying to depict O’Blivion’s ultimate goal to show that television will eventually take over people’s lives and will dictate every aspect of their life somehow. However, that goal is overlooked at times because of the fact that sex is everywhere within this movie. The movie explains how by watching this Videodrome, one will form a tumor and become controlled by Bianca, who is taking over the program that killed her father. However, it is ironic that the program that Bianca is in control of is one that revolves around sex. Also, Nicki, who is dating Max, gets sexually aroused when they watch an episode together. This is another instance where the movie is depicting women a weak and submissive to sex. In fact, when Max finds out that the show is run from Pennsylvania, he encourages Nicki to audition for the show. Again, the film depicts Nicki as a weak individual who is seemingly obsessed with sex. Lastly, another instance where women are depicted with a negative connotation is when the pornographer that Max gets in contact with to find out the truth about Videodrome, is a female. Even though this movie was aired in the 1980’s, and gender roles was not something set in stone at the time as much as it may be now, this type of movie sets a precedent that other movies may follow. When analyzing the role of women in this movie, it
While these movies present advanced technology that can interact with humans, understand any command, and do everything a human can do, there are still traces of gender inequality. In the article Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age, Claudia Springer explains “the love affair between humans and machines” (Springer). Springer’s choice of diction sparks an interest in this topic because she describes the relationship as a love affair. By explaining it as a love affair, it automatically makes the individual think of a relationship between two people involving feelings. Within her article, Springer references to multiple movies that depict what she describes as “techno-erotic imagery” (Springer). Springer brings up a point within her article that this paper will elaborate further on as it discusses the movie. As Springer explains, when we watch these movies about artificial intelligence we are intrigued by the steps taken to give us an insight to the future. This aspect of the movies is intriguing to us, which will cause us to overlook the gender inequalities. While we may see a robot that can do anything …show more content…
The overemphasized theme in Videodrome is sex. While the movie is trying to depict O’Blivion’s ultimate goal to show that television will eventually take over people’s lives and will dictate every aspect of their life somehow. However, that goal is overlooked at times because of the fact that sex is everywhere within this movie. The movie explains how by watching this Videodrome, one will form a tumor and become controlled by Bianca, who is taking over the program that killed her father. However, it is ironic that the program that Bianca is in control of is one that revolves around sex. Also, Nicki, who is dating Max, gets sexually aroused when they watch an episode together. This is another instance where the movie is depicting women a weak and submissive to sex. In fact, when Max finds out that the show is run from Pennsylvania, he encourages Nicki to audition for the show. Again, the film depicts Nicki as a weak individual who is seemingly obsessed with sex. Lastly, another instance where women are depicted with a negative connotation is when the pornographer that Max gets in contact with to find out the truth about Videodrome, is a female. Even though this movie was aired in the 1980’s, and gender roles was not something set in stone at the time as much as it may be now, this type of movie sets a precedent that other movies may follow. When analyzing the role of women in this movie, it