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Representation of Gender and Race in Disney's Non-White Princess Films
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Ivana Špika Disney’s animated films have been popular among young viewers all over the world for almost a century and have had a great influence on popular culture. One of the most successful characters Disney has produced are their princesses. For several decades Disney has created only white princesses, however, in 1990s Disney began to portray women of color in their princess films. In my thesis I analyzed the way Disney represented gender and race in films with non-white Disney character. I also...
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Representation of Gender in "Modern Family"
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Tamara Vuković Television reflects and shapes, or in Hall’s terms, represents American culture to the audience, and sitcoms are one of the major instruments through which dominant ideologies about gender are circulated. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how a popular American ABC’s sitcom, Modern Family, which apparently resists traditional gender portrayal, uses systems of representation to construct meanings and reproduce knowledge about gender, using mainly Stuart Hall’s work of representation...
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Representation of LGBTQ Characters in Rick Riordan's Middle Grade Books
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Marija Veselčić The work starts with an introduction to the theme and why is it of significance. The first part of the main body explains the terms representations and gender and how do they correlate. A brief summary of the history of children literature and the reason why literature should be studied is included as well. The second part includes the analysis of three homosexual character, a bisexual character and a transgender character. Their appearance, their personalities and their relationships with...
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Representation of Race and Gender in Marvel's The Defenders
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Emanuela Kontent This Bachelor Thesis seeks to analyze the representation of race and gender on the examples of superheroes Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. The central theory is representation which was defined by Stuart Hall. In this work, a comparison of aforementioned superheroes with some examples of stereotypical superheroes will be made. Furthermore shall be examined the way in which the characters of Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and the TV shows they appear in depart from the stereotypical representation of...
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Representation of Slavic Characters in Hollywood and TV
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Gloria Makjanić For decades, Slavic people have faced systemic stereotyping by Hollywood filmmakers and TV producers. This thesis aims to showcase how exactly the Western media represents Slavic people using examples from movies and TV shows raging from the Cold war era to modern Netflix productions. It presents readers with two branches which highly influence the media representation of Slavs: Slavophobia, a form of discrimination which rose to prominence during World War II in Nazi Germany, and...
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Representation of Witches in the Horror Genre
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Manuela Milas Witches have always been an enigma since many stereotypes surround them and it is difficult to find their true meaning in a sea of lies and misinformation. Even though opinions vary, it can be noticed that there are indeed two main portrayals within the horror genre. Witches can be distinguished either as evil crones or as strong feminist icons. Therefore, this paper deals with the study of how these two depictions came to be and what helped shape them. These are not mere illustrations but...
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Representation of Woman in Metal Subculture
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Adriana Janković This thesis is concerned with the problem of how women, with emphasis on their gender are represented in the world of metal subculture. Crucial cultural concepts such as representation, gender, sexual objectification, male-dominance, cultural identity and male gaze are connected with the wider topic of this thesis which is metal subculture. It is perceived as a special environment where its members’ cultural identities and mental concepts, according to Saussure’s theory, are formed under...
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Representation of Women in Classical Hollywood: The Dumb Blonde, Femme Fatale and The Screwball Heroine
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Katarina Smoljo The Classical Hollywood Cinema stands as one of the most important periods in film history, during which films transitioned from silent to sound and developed distinctive visual and narrative styles of filmmaking. Similarly, the element of storytelling became a powerful tool in capturing viewers´ attention, as well as influencing their understanding and view of life and human relationships. Films from that era had specific ways of portraying different characters, especially those of women....
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Representation of Women in Contemporary Hollywood Film: Chick Flicks - Trapped Between the Feminist and the Feminine
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Petra Digula The lucrative cinema business of the classical Hollywood brought up the emergence of a category called the woman’s film, recognizing an increased economic potential in creating a genre that would favor the affinities of the female cinemagoers of the time. It could be soon recognized that the woman’s film had similar characteristics of a genre today known under the name of chick flick. However, the transition from the woman’s film to chick flick was not a straightforward process....
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Representation of Women in Films: „Psycho“ (1960), „The Silence of the Lambs“ (1991), „Titanic“ (1997) and „Skyfall“ (2012)
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Ana Žuvela This thesis deals with the representation of women in the following films: Psycho (1960), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Titanic (1997) and Skyfall (2012). After a thorough case study analyses of these films, the thesis attempts to determine if there are any differences in presenting women and men and whether the films in question strengthen or deny social stereotypes about women and women roles in films. Although the depiction of women in films has changed over time, if we think of...
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Representation of black comic book superheroes
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Matej Mandek Analysing popular culture can be presumed to be a trivial task, but under the surface,
when all the aspects are considered, the topic reveals to be fairly complicated. This work will
focus on the study of representation in relation to race, power and stereotyping that was
primarily researched by Stuart Hall. It will be carried out on the basis of the two black comic
book superheroes that appeared in the early stages of comic, The Black Panther and Brother
Voodoo. The lenses through which...
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Representation of gender and race in Jenji Kohan's Orange is the New Black
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Manuela Jović Gender and race have been in the centre of many discussions between academics who oftentimes analysed how they are represented in media. Still, one group of people has not been researched enough, and that is incarcerated women who have not been accurately represented in the media through its history. The racial and gender stereotypes that are often used when depicitng the prison life of women resulted in further dehumanization and discrimination of incarcerated people. In an attempt to shed...
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