Sunday, October 11, 2015

Christensen: Extended Comments

In Christensen's piece, she discusses how media content effects children in different ways. She

cleaned the dwarves' house and waited for Prince Charming to bring me life: (Christensen 1)


This is an example of how movies, especially Disney movies, can create unrealistic and sometimes unhealthy expectations for young children. In Ashly's blog post, she uses a great quote to support this:

"Movies portray reality yet Reality portrays movies."


Movies depict everyday life, but often everyday life is the way it is because of the lifestyles, habits and expectations that movies and shows and other types of media bring up. Ashly also makes a great point: she says that movies are very often a representation of the movie creator's views and prejudices, and that in turn can cause the viewers to start thinking or believing in the same things that are being shown, in which case they are essentially beginning to take on the beliefs and ideas of the creator. This is something that I have never considered before when watching a movie.

Christensen uuses the frase "secret education" while refering to what children learn from cartoons, shows and movies. This is a very accurate way to describe it, in my opinion. Girls will learn that is important to be skinny, white, and pretty if they compare themselves to the female characters that Disney has portrayed in the past. Christensen says that the actions of the minor characters in movies, such as what they are singing, what kinds of jobs they are doing, can say a lot about what the movie is trying to say about that type of person. For example, if a person who is overweight is depicted as unintelligent or as a buffoon, then children can infer that people of a similar build are below people who are skinny. HERE is a video of 10 movie stareotypes, which I will also imbed below.



2 comments:

  1. The quote that you borrowed from Ashly is really powerful! It gets you thinking even more about the certain stereotypes portrayed. I like the video that you provided to help expand on the stereotypes as well!

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  2. Ashly's quote was really awesome to include! It's so easy to get involved in what we see in movies and believe in their portrayal of real life. The video was a really cool addition. as well. It was definitely something to think about!

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