Answer these question as complete as possible. For the film miss representation.

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Answer these question as complete as possible. For the film miss representation. 1) What is the thesis of the film? 2) How does the filmmaker show that there is a correlation between media content and the attitudes and behaviors of individuals in our society? Or that this film has changed attitudes and behaviors. 3) Do you agree or disagree with the thesis of the film? Do you agree or disagree with how the examples are used to make a point? Why do you agree or disagree? 4) What did you learn from the film?

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1) Miss Representation is a 2011 American documentary film by Jennifer Siebel Newsom as the script writer, director and producer. The documentary follows interviews with young American females and their opinions on the portrayal of real life examples of powerful women in the mainstream media. Thus, by deploying the opinion of the audience sitting in front of the television screens, it redirects the gaze towards the media projections and its role in creating and reinforcing the stereotypes about women such as the presence of women in executive positions in the corporate sector, in powerful political ( government) offices being a rarity or a mere exception. Another crucial theme that is picked by the film is the heteronormative masculine discourse which is circulated in the media about women. The film raises points of critique about the current politics of gaze which is created by mainstream media wherein power is seen as a masculine enterprise and women can enter this otherwise exclusive domain only by internalizing and assuming a bit of masculinity . The film thus makes the viewer’s rethink about the popular phrases such as ‘working in a man’s world’ as a normalisation of this very gender stereotype and the sexual division of labour as powerful women are hardly depicted in the media as both socially or politically influential as well as string, independent and feminine individuals. It does so by using the perspective of the young viewers themselves upon the lens rather than a mere reflection of the view of the mainstream lens itself.

In this way, the film has made a crucial contribution to the creating a mass movement against the under-representation of women in influential positions by circulating limited and often disparaging portrayals of women. The film’s motto, “You can't be what you can't see” calls forth a collaborative action and discusses the prospects of a joint action by the viewers to use the social media to create a public campaign about gender misrepresentation and emphasise that young women need and want positive role models, and that the media and other businesses, educational and political institutions need to take a more socially responsible stance.

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