Miss Representation Essay

Looking at the 2011 American film, Miss Representation, written, and directed, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The film explores the behaviors in which mainstream media has given and remains to give a widespread of under-representations of women, whose negative images on screen, keep women in a position of weakness, being a constant target of labeling, but worst of all, victims of violent acts.
The documentary raises important issues such as women having no voice in today’s society because of the constant emphasis on their body, and body parts, which constantly dehumanizes them and sends out the message that they do not matter as a whole, in their complexity. Furthermore, the effect of their constant and ubiquitous dehumanization that exists in

As Jane Fonda states in Miss Representation, “media creates consciousness and if what gets to be put out there that creates our awareness is strong minded by men, we’re not going to make any progress” (3:14). One of the main issues that is discussed and put under lens here is that women have been and endure to be constantly defined, portrayed and (mis)represented by men. Although women make up 51% of the total U.S. population, there are a small amount of women that are in fact writers, producers, directors or legislatures in Congress. The point that I am demanding to make here is that while images of women in U.S. media have transformed through past and women as a minority group in U.S. have achieved certain rights and privileges, no real change or progress has been made. The imageries altered, but women are still massively show stereotypically and distorted. A sweeping and more positive change would only be likely to occur if more women were behind the cameras and behind the images that are being portrayed. It would modify the entire perspective because it would no longer be male-oriented and male-dominated and it would create an environment in which womanhood would define themselves in relation to themselves and not toward men only. It would convert the case of them being the vehicles of representation and less the case of them being represented (that is being behind the cameras) which would give them more power to control what is on the screen and thus greater power to control and shape the audience’ views on women and how they should be treated. The most harmful issue is that by triggering women to have very low self-esteem and be continually unconfident