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The Simpsons – Article Myriad //www.articlemyriad.com Insightful commentary on literature, history, the arts and more Thu, 10 May 2018 20:14:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.13 Film Review and Analysis of the Documentary “The Merchants of Cool” //www.articlemyriad.com/film-review-analysis-merchants-cool/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:00:08 +0000 //www.articlemyriad.com/wordpress/?p=2186 One of the most troubling aspects of the documentary film “The Merchants of Cool” is that the demographic that has fallen victim to this mass-marketed rebellion is the one that is most familiar. Just as its aim appears to be, the documentary film “The Merchants of Cool” forces one to question many of the media icons that have been mainstays in our youth culture. In fact, whether they were favorites or not, most youth who grew up in the 1990s have an enormous amount of popular culture knowledge, but the dark side of this is the level of consumption pointed out in the documentary film “The Merchants of Cool” as well as the level of deception present. Even more disturbing is the fact that many companies see teenagers not as people with real lives, problems, and issues, but as walking and talking dollar signs and even more disconcerting, as potential marketers of their products.

There are many disturbing, if not somewhat paranoid ideas presented in the documentary film “The Merchants of Cool”. For instance, the thought that people one sees that look hip or trendy are merely “plants” by companies to make their peers feel like they need to buy something to look like this person is incredibly frightening, especially since they could be anywhere. This aspect of the documentary film “The Merchants of Cool” perpetuates not a sense of unity as youth should feel with one another, but a very strong sense of jealousy and even suspicion. While the documentary film “The Merchants of Cool” is doubtlessly attempting to represent media and other companies in a negative light to expose these truths, the most perplexing question that remains is how true is all of this really?

Despite some of the questionable arguments put forth in the documentary film “The Merchants of Cool” one at least should be struck that this level of deception could be present and if nothing else, the film “Merchants of Cool” does get one thinking. With the evidence and argument presented, one cannot help but feel used simply as a result of being young. In fact, one could go so far as to say the biggest question that exists with this film is whether or not this entire sinister really exists to the extent portrayed. It would seem so and it is time for young people to wake up and snap out of the stupor they have been sold into.

This troubling question about the film The Merchants of Cool can easily be answered by turning on the television and now, after having the ideas from the film in mind, one can watch MTV and other popular culture youth programming with fresh eyes. The vulgarity is certainly present but it’s so omnipresent and presented as just an innocuous image of vulgarity (as opposed to what it truly is) that it has become almost completely acceptable. The problem is, for those not indoctrinated into this accepted level of vulgarity (i.e. parents and older folks) this is sheer porn and bad taste. Children, especially young girls who see a certain level of sexuality and “misbehaving” as something that is expected and even necessary are the most heavily affected by this because the information being presented is that it’s cool to be sexy and dirty and fun but there is no knowledge of the true issues surrounding sex or adulthood, thus it is, especially after watching MTV after this film, horribly creepy.

In other words, the question about whether or not this is an overly sinister representation of media and other companies marketing to the youth population might depend on who sees this film. On the one hand, those indoctrinated and unable to know better (very young people being fed these images and ideas) would declare that the film is silly and paranoid; something that parents dreamed up but as one moves into adulthood and then sees the film and watches MTV immediately sees that Docherty was merely skimming the surface.

Other essays and articles in the Arts Archives related to this topic include : Marriage and Family on Television : Parody, Sitcom and “The Simpsons” •  Film Review and Analysis of the Documentary “All About Sacramento”  •  Gender and Generation in the Film “The Graduate” (1967)

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Analysis of Harmful Representations of Women in the Media //www.articlemyriad.com/analysis-harmful-representations-women-media/ Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:48:55 +0000 //www.articlemyriad.com/wordpress/?p=1518 Other essays and articles in the Arguments and Random Archives related to this topic include : • Marriage and Family on Television : Parody, Sitcom and “The Simpsons” •  The Need for FDA Regulation of the Dietary Supplement Industry  • Cognitive Therapy and the Treatment of Eating Disorders  •   Contemporary Issues for Women in the Military  •   Gender, Equality, and Subordination in India

Harmful representations of women in the media are not just limited to television or films, they are wide-ranging and can be found in nearly every medium in popular culture. Three of the mostly widely consumed mediums for these depictions of females are television, video games, and magazines and each one of these has a corresponding set of unique problems. While there are many other issues related to the way females are repented for viewers, for the purposes of this essay it is useful to explore gender stereotypes in television, overly sexualized images of women in video games, and unrealistic images in magazines. As a whole, these three issues support the idea that these problems have a negative effect on the way women not only perceive themselves but how our culture understands them as well.

Television is one of the most present and widely viewed mediums in this country and has a large effect on the way women see themselves and how others view them. Television, with its many shows about men and women, is responsible for some harmful representations of women because, among other reasons, it supports many gender stereotypes. These stereotypes are harmful for women because they confine women to several gender-specific roles that are not always true. “Regrettably, Wife Swap is simply another in the increasingly long line of ‘car crash’ reality shows along with Joe Millionaire, The Bachelor, and Mr. Right, where women are either portrayed as commodities, desperate individuals obsessed with marriage, or in Wife Swap’s case, entirely measured by their success in the domestic sphere” (Fairclough 345). These stereotyped perceptions of what women are like is hardly true, yet even humorous television shows depicting women, especially Wife Swap, further solidify the view that women are single-minded and unable to think or act outside narrowly defined and culturally coded behavior. For a woman that might be trying to live without being married or concerned with more important things besides keeping a perfect home, this can be even more harmful since she will think she is not “normal” because she is not living the way a “real” woman should. For younger girls, this creates the impression that little girls are supposed to grow up and getting married or else they are not feminine.

Much as with television, video games can confine women in many ways as well. One of the most noticable elements of many video games is not really so much stereotypes about women’s roles, but the way they are presented as sex objects. Consider how “the impossibly busty body of Laura Croft, the female protagonist of Tob Raider, can be viewed nude on certain websites. The theory is that these stereotyped representations could be damaging to both girls and boys” (Norris 716). Even though she is not a real women, she is still idolized and made into an unrealistic picture of what the perfect should be. For young boys, this gives the idea that a real woman should look the way this character and to little girls, she is seen as a hero who is impossibly beautiful and has a body that no true human woman could ever hope for. This makes both boys and girls prone to idolizing an unrealistic woman and might make the real women look dull in comparison. Women in this game, at least the central character, Laura Croft, is an unattainable ideal and that is, in itself, a very damaging notion for both genders.

Unrealistic representations of women are even more common in fashion magazines where impossibly thin girls are posed in ways that often show off how skinny they are. Just as with video games, it gives women and younger girls the impression that it is possible and important for them to look like a model and unhealthy obsessions with their weight often happen. “In common discourse, eating disorders are often seen as the result of the pressure to be thin, operated by the media. Magazines and the media propose/impose an unnatural model of beauty and young women fall into the trap of serious eating disorders in the effort to emulate their favorite top models” (Giordano 149). Consider any cover of any number of women’s fashion magainzes such as Elle or Vogue. Instead of having a cover that shows a new product or topic of interest to women, or even the clothes being modeled on a normal female, in order to sell them the woman is very thin and sexually posed. This makes the women looking at these images feel less confident in their own bodies and more likely to develop issues about their weight such as anorexia or bulimia. Just as with video games, it makes girls feel like they have to conform to unrealistic standards of what a woman or girl “should” look like. It is not healthy for young girls to think that when they are adults like many of these models they should look like they do not eat, yet there are still many cases of anorexia and other eating disorders because of it.

Western culture is very invested in entertainment so television, video games, and magazines are all very common and can be found everywhere. Since that is the case, many women are exposed to these ideas about how they should behave and live their lives, especially through television shows like those mentioned above. Women are also always confronted with these harmful ideas about how they should look through video games and magazines as well. In order to make it so that women do not feel like they are trapped into looking perfect or like the unrealistic models or video game characters and that they do not feel like they must be housewives to be successful, there needs to be a big change in the way the media represents women. This might be a hard task though because it all sells very well so that means that women have to resist the temptation to believe the way the media presents them.

Sources

Fairclough, Kirsty. “Women’s Work? Wife Swap and the reality problem.” Feminist Media Studies 4.3 (2004): 344

Giordano. “Anorexia Nervosa and its Moral Foundations.” The International Journal of Children s Rights13.1 (2005): 149

Norris. “Gender Stereotypes, Aggression, and Computer Games: An Online Survey of Women.”CyberPsychology& Behavior 7.6 (2004): 714

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