Media Magazine Research Task

How Film Genres are Changing and Developing:-

MM52- The World Of Mockingjay: Ideology, Dystopia And Propaganda...

The Hunger Games is a post apocalyptic and dystopian society genre that expresses the ideology that those in power controls ideas and resources. A strong female protagonist used acts as a symbol of rebellion, freedom from an oppressed life and a new beginning. Film can be considered as a satyrical comment on the worlds capitalist society and may act as a warning or even a foreshadowing to the world having a possibility of having a similar future as the Hunger Games.

MM49 - In the Flesh - Recasting the Zombie Genre...

Writer, Dominic Mitchell, cleverly uses the simple and widely popular Zombie genre and adds his own twist in order to explore some current and upcoming serious issues surrounding prejudice, alienation, immigration, terrorism and crime. By adding these themes, Mitchell creates a more realistic visual of a zombie apocalypse in England. 

MM44 - Is Hollywood Out Of Ideas...

In recent years, Hollywood has almost purely consisted of franchises, remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels and adaptations, causing audiences to question whether Hollywood is out of new and fresh ideas. A main issue would be audiences enjoying and being comfortable with familiarity therefore making them refuse to accept changes. Over the years, the popular genres have had many changes such as the self aware slasher films (Scream Franchise), Superhero films (The Dark Knight Rises, Avengers), an outpour of vampire films (Twilight, Abraham Lincoln, Let Me In, Vampires suck) and fairytales (Snow White and the Huntsman, Hansel and Gretel). 

Introduction to the Critical Investigation: blog task

Why do comic book movies like The Avengers reinforce traditional gender stereotypes and what impact does this have on audiences?:-

There are several ways in which comic book movies such as The Avengers strongly reinforces the traditional gender stereotypes. One of the most common ways they do this is by portraying the protagonists as predominantly male. Also, the way in which they are represented is very typical of the male stereotypes; strong, courageous with strong morals. This representation of men would have been created in order to act as role models to the male audience. 

It may be considered that comic book movies are slowly attempting to give their female characters a similar importance to the male characters by giving them stronger personalities with a more influential role to the plot which is a very alternative representation in comparison to the stereotypical fragile, damsel in distress.

Despite the new characterization of some of the female characters, certain aspects of them still reinforces the traditional stereotypes. The females are often dressed in extremely tight clothing in order to accentuate their bodies and reinforce the stereotype of women being sex objects to appeal to the male characters in the film and in the audience. This is a great strategy in order to maximise profit as audiences are predominantly male. However with the number of female fans increasing, women are slowly getting more important roles in comic book movies with a few films having a female character as the protagonist. In order to further increase their female fan base, there are several films that will be released in the near future with a female protagonist.