Miss Representation: How To Get Away With Murder

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My example of How To Get Away With Murder challenges the arguments made in Miss Representation. Given the way in which the roles success in their fields of work are shown. How they have a variety of ages represented in the show. As well as the number of ethnicities shown in the actors is beyond what others have shown. The arguments made in Miss Representation will be overseen by this show and many others to come. In the film Miss Representation director Jennifer Newsom’s primary argument is if young women do not see any other women in roles of power, they start to think that they are not able to achieve that power. An example of this would be “You can’t be what you can’t see.”, said by Marie Wilson the founder of the White House Project. …show more content…

Since many of the roles are given to white actresses, actresses of color are underrepresented in the industry. Only six out of the top 500 box office films feature a woman of color as their protagonist, none which are at the top 200. This only leaves it to around 1% of the protagonist to be a woman of color. As we head towards a better society, more and more examples of media that challenge these statements are being created.
How To Get Away With Murder is a show that revolves around the life of Annalise Keating and five students from her Criminal Law 100 class that have been selected to work with her over the course of the school year. At first the show starts off in the present time with four out of the five looking very disturbed while talking about disposing of a body. After that short clip we are taken back three months to the beginning of the semester. We are introduced to the five students. Connor Walsh, he comes off as pretty narcissistic and will do whatever it takes to get what he wants. Wes Gibbins, added onto the waitlist days before Annalise’s class started he has to prove his worth to the others in the group. Asher Millstone, typical college frat boy he is secluded from the other fours illegal …show more content…

Such as how women are rarely portrayed as a higher power, The fact that there have not been many female lawyers on television. Viola Davis has a multidimensional character that is intimidating, but also caring for her students, or the fact that she is able to have affairs, but also be in love with her husband. The character of Annalise as a successful lawyer give young women the sense of being able to achieve her successfulness. Viola Davis being the age of fifty has overcome the age barrier for women in Hollywood. Given that Viola is African American her role of Annalise has won a number of awards the most renowned being the prime time emmy award for lead actress in a drama. This award is in fact a very important role because the fact that she is the first African American women to have won

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