Week 8

Reading Analysis

In this week’s readings, it was brought to my attention the social ideals and standards for men and women can be quite similar in regards to how sexuality is portrayed through cinema. The theme and concept I chose to focus on are how male superheroes seem to be objectified similarly to how women are objectified. I also found it notable that many male superheroes face more social isolated (perhaps due to being different), similar to how women have been portrayed as outsiders (women at home, not in the workplace) and secondary characters in films. This could be an interesting topic to add to my portfolio as it displays the notion of leading male characters being pushed as objects and erotic-displays for the viewers. Films show male heroes as “bodies unmarked as objects of erotic display” but undesirable men (villain) characters are seen as aggressive, hated, and feared. As my takeaway from this article, films seemingly uses men and women in similar ways to showcase district points of attraction and “physical beauty” in a way to attract and engage audiences.

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