Monthly Archives: June 2010

Rereading Sex and the City

Brasfield, Rebecca. 2006. “Rereading Sex and the City: Exposing the Hegemonic Feminist Narrative.” Journal of Popular Film and Television. 34(3): 130-39.

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The Proposal – Film Analysis

The Usual Proposal: How Hollywood “True” Love Promotes Hegemonic Gender Roles The Proposal tells the same formulaic story that many romantic comedies have told over and over again of two young white people who despise one another falling in love … Continue reading

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Skyy Infusions Ginger Vodka – Ad Analysis

On page 31 of the June 2010 issue of Rolling Stone, there lurks a full-page ad for Skyy Infusions all-natural Ginger vodka.  The ad features a large blue bottle of Skyy ginger vodka in the foreground of the right side, which … Continue reading

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Class Lecture

Smith, Marshall. 2010. Unpublished lecture material. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado.

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall – Film Analysis

In the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Peter Bretter, an aspiring musician, has been dating Sarah Marshall, a TV star, for five and a half years when she breaks up with him for another man.  After trying to get over her … Continue reading

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Ratatouille – Film Analysis

Ratatouille is the story of a French rat named Remy who has unusual instincts for his kind: his senses of taste and smell are especially keen and he develops an ambition to become a great chef. Obviously, he must overcome … Continue reading

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Longchamp – Ad Analysis

The Kate Moss for Longchamp advertisement was featured in the April 2010 issue of Elle magazine. The majority of Elle readers are women and girls ages 18 to 49 (Wikipedia). The advertisement is a black and white picture of a … Continue reading

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The Sweetest Thing – Film Analysis

Not So Sweet Christina Walters is a single party girl in her late twenties that is described as being able to have any man she wants. In The Sweetest Thing, Christina and her two girl friends, Jane and Courtney, go … Continue reading

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Hitch – Film Analysis

Alex Hitchen is a consultant for romantic advice in New York, he teaches his clients what to say to get the date of their dreams and how to go about the date. Alex is an African-American man around thirty who … Continue reading

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Crystal Light – Ad Analysis

The basis of advertisement has always been to get a product sold, but in today’s market the focus is on the process of getting people to want the product, rather than the process of actually selling it. To get enough … Continue reading

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Trident White – Ad Analysis

The advertisement that I chose is a Trident White ad that appeared in the March 2010 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. It shows a hegemonically attractive white woman with shining white teeth smiling at a police officer presumably after she … Continue reading

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Secret Deodorant – Ad Analysis

Secret deodorant’s “Fear of Being Exposed” advertisement was displayed in the July 2010 issue of Glamour magazine. We can assume that the ad was directed towards American women because it was displayed in Glamour magazine, which is traditionally a publication read … Continue reading

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Love Actually- Film Analysis

Love Actually (Curtis 2003) is a story about several different couples in London, England that deal with love in various ways. They are all connected to each other in some way or another but have different sexual situations. It follows … Continue reading

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Film Analysis- RATATOUILLE (Disney . PIXAR )

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932/                         ratatouille

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Anti-Rape Condom

With the recent discussion of rape, I thought I would write a little about this article I ran into today as well… “CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Wireless Flash – FlashNews) – A doctor in South Africa thinks she’s finally found … Continue reading

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The gay “Brady Bunch” family

On June 24th, 2010, CNN released a story following the lives of a gay couple and their biological and adopted children. Dubbed by the author, the gay “Brady Bunch,” David Mayer and Keith Kennard now raise seven children together. Living … Continue reading

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Gender Wage Disparity Persists in Science Careers

Female scientists earn significantly less money and recognition than their male colleagues, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature and reported in the June 24, 2010 Vancouver Sun. Six to 10 years after completing their PhDs, men’s … Continue reading

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The Beauty Myth

Wolf, Naomi. 1991. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used Against Women. 1st ed. New York: W. Morrow.

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Children Raised in Lesbian Households

According to a study recently published in the Pediatrics journal, children of lesbian couples are psychologically well-adjusted and have fewer behavior problems than children of heterosexual couples. The study’s author, Dr. Nanette Gartrell, researched the children of 78 lesbian couples over the course of 25 … Continue reading

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Rape on the Rez

The news article “Rape on the Rez,” shares the startling story of a nineteen year old woman who was raped then killed. Marquita Marie Walking Eagle lived on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota where her killer, a seventeen … Continue reading

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