1. Consider Meaghan Morris’s argument about culture, power, and the popular using the film Mr and Mrs Smith to elaborate Morris’s key points. The film Mr and Mrs Smith which featured Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as Jane and John Smith centered at a couple which lived secrete lives. They were very skilled assassins who then were hired to assassinate each other. This shows the struggle for power for both men and women in the society. Morris calls popular culture as a culture accustomed to war, struggle, emergency and invasion.
He argues that when talking about culture one should not narrow down to one text but should look at a wider perspective of life. The power struggle in the film is illustrated when the couple wants to assassin each other. The fight in this play shows the normal fights experienced in real-life by couples therefore the film is showing the popular culture within our society. Morris in his work he illustrates how his parents have a fight with the coming of the TV in Australia, this is also illustrated in the film of Mr. and Mrs. Smith where there is a completion between the partners.
Discuss feminist theory’s debt to psychoanalysis. You must refer to both of the texts uploaded for week 11 in your answer but you can also refer to any other set texts on the unit that help your answer. Feminist theory’s debt to psychoanalysis focuses on the relationship between fashion images, their fascination for female viewers and self harming of young women. It helps us to have knowledge of the grasp this kind has over the generation of young women, the point where pain comes in, the self-punishment and the loss resulting to the images of the young female appearing on the magazines whose demand is slime bodies.
The theory also looks at the double loss that accrues from the young women striving to be recognized in the society. The analysis looks at how young women in the society strive to be in attain standard and norm of the society where body weight is an issue, these practices are referred to as self-harming because in the long run they suffer mentally and healthy wise. This theory shifts away from the traditional norm where the media has been blamed for the causes and effects of the fashion on young women.
This theory looks at how women in the society strive to achieve a sense of recognition and identity in the society but in the process develop serious complication some leading to mental disorder and committing suicide. It is urged that anorexia is as a result of young women seeking for approval in the society such school and other social places hence feminism disorder is more social than it was perceived as self. There is a debate on the high image fashion which encourages eating disorder, low-esteem and fear on their body weight.
The fashion magazines are characterized by extreme thinness, thin legs and arms, almost flat chest and narrow hips. The theory points out that this are negative values that a young women have come to appreciate and live with it as part of them. According to Butler’s thinking on feminism, the two losses that young women encounter are the loss of the same sex object of love which is an important factor in gaining gendered position which results to imperfect girls. The second loss is the loss of feminist ideal liberty and equality which is always accompanied with love among the women.
The physic pain caused to young women according to Butler(1997a) is as a result of social pressure and the standards of the magazines. This has institutionalized and consolidated the environment of the young women that of inexplicable anxiety, pain, rage and self-harming as normal and acceptable. Feminism is considered as a private matter that young women do not like ot share with anyone but solve it internal by themselves. The young women of nowadays does not escape from the traditional feminism because they get their assistance neither from the society nor their husbands.
It is clear that for a young woman to be liberated there must be desire to take political position, be on frontline in the unions’ fight and have faith in their future. 1.
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