My first thoughts when I read the course name was that this would be a very interesting course for me, since I'm a pretty big feminist ( I mean otherwise I probably wouldn't have picked this course so duh), and that we'd be looking through old texts and artworks, slowly building our way up to the present.
However, from what you've showed us so far, we'll be looking at much more than that, and I'm excited to see what it teaches me about the representation of women in more than just modern day times.
So far in my life, girls and women have been portrayed as (usually; there are some exceptions) two dimensional beings who are there either there only as the main character's love interest, as some faux attempt at equal representation (in which they don't speak a word), or as a villain.
It has been getting much better but there are still many cases where the roles of females was severely lacking or two-dimensional, eg. the majority of women in media representation are still thin, white, and pretty.
Case 1: Only one female character to represent to represent the entire female half of the population.
Case two: in the case of there being more than one woman, they all look similar.
Studies show that in the top 100 films of 2015, 48 of the films had no black speaking females, 70 had no Asian speaking females, 84 had no disabled speaking females, and 93 had no lesbian, bisexual or transgender females.
https://www.ted.com/talks/stacy_smith_the_data_behind_hollywood_s_sexism#t-231260
However, from what you've showed us so far, we'll be looking at much more than that, and I'm excited to see what it teaches me about the representation of women in more than just modern day times.
So far in my life, girls and women have been portrayed as (usually; there are some exceptions) two dimensional beings who are there either there only as the main character's love interest, as some faux attempt at equal representation (in which they don't speak a word), or as a villain.
It has been getting much better but there are still many cases where the roles of females was severely lacking or two-dimensional, eg. the majority of women in media representation are still thin, white, and pretty.
Case 1: Only one female character to represent to represent the entire female half of the population.
Studies show that in the top 100 films of 2015, 48 of the films had no black speaking females, 70 had no Asian speaking females, 84 had no disabled speaking females, and 93 had no lesbian, bisexual or transgender females.
https://www.ted.com/talks/stacy_smith_the_data_behind_hollywood_s_sexism#t-231260
It's pretty sad that all the women in your Case 1 pictures are predominantly pink and white; like the creators put them in to appease feminist viewers, and used the colour to make sure they're set apart from the male characters.
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