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Madwoman On The Screen: Streaming Forms Of Feminine Power, Kassandra I. Schreiber
Madwoman On The Screen: Streaming Forms Of Feminine Power, Kassandra I. Schreiber
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This paper explores how the formal aspects of streaming platforms create a female inheritance that helps foster multiple representations of femininity and womanhood which empowers women. Building off of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's Madwoman in the Attic, the paper argues that because streaming platforms produce original content, are a space for multiplicity and interconnection, and act as a type of archive, they can build a female inheritance. The combination of these attributes offer a widespread emergence of multiple stories that valorize women and what is socially coded as feminine, creating a creative network that improves the representation of women …
"This Is The Way": Gender Representation In Disney's The Mandalorian, Brooke Solorio
"This Is The Way": Gender Representation In Disney's The Mandalorian, Brooke Solorio
Theses and Dissertations
When Disney released The Mandalorian, it quickly became the top show on its highly popular streaming platform. As with all media wielding this level of exposure, it is important to closely examine its content for depictions of peoples including females. In accordance with Sandra Bem's gender schema theory, the implicit messaging in this series can influence the formation of people's mental shortcuts about what it means to be female. This study employs content analysis to illuminate the portrayal of physical and non-physical attributes of the women present in the two seasons existing at the time of this study. Results reveal …