Introduction
The introduction is added to show my orginal idea about my film blog
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What I am going to do in this blog
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Analsying the phenomenon of male gaze in films
Exploring different and fresh female images
Reflecting my working process
Marvel and DC female characters in films:
The videos show nearly all female superheroes in DC and marvel films. However, as one of the investigation indicated that there is a gender gap between male and female superheroes in these kinds of films.
Gender imbalance in superhero films
This gender imbalance is about male and female images quantity appeared in the films and their showing time.
“Marvel’s action-adventures might continue to work wonders at the box office but new research shows the lack of female representation across the highest grossing superhero movies.”
——Amilia Totten
Gender Imbalance In Film: Women Under-Represented In Superhero Movies
The audience obviously sees that male images are more than female images in superhero films, which give the mass people a sense of male characters have a dominant status in these films.
“Information has been gathered from a range of sources, including IMDb, International Business Times and Digital Spy and shows that, for example, men feature on screen for an average of almost 13 minutes compared to four minutes for women.”
——Amilia Totten
Gender Imbalance In Film: Women Under-Represented In Superhero Movies
Nonetheless, women images have been changed a lot since DC company publish the Wonder Woman film. The image of Wonder Woman inspires many girls to become independent and brave in the real world. Recent years, the audience can also see that many marvel films added female superheroes elements, such as Captain Marvel and Shuri in Black Panther1.
“What is evident however, is that 19 years into 21st century, it is time for female super hero characters to be the norm rather than a novelty.”
——Lena Anyuolo
Battle of the Super Sexes; The Glaring Gap Between Male & Female Super Heroes
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