GMU:Appropriation within Digital Worlds/Lise Epinat: Difference between revisions

The cinema is often described as a mirror of the world. Movies are indeed made about every important event, that has perhaps happened in real life. Nevertheless, movies are also a source of inspiration. They influence our actions, give us ideas, and they can even change our ways to be. Therefore, there is a mutual influence between cinema and real life. This mutuality allows us to observe the evolutions of our society as well as the reality portrayed in movies. The equality between men and women is for example one of these societal evolutions that one can see through movies and that reflects a social reality.

My first idea was to show pictures and/or videos of people who question gender stereotypes. This idea occured to me from the music video ''Mon Kid'' of the french singer Eddy De Pretto. In this song a father speaks to his son and explains to him how he should behave in order to become a grown man. He expects his son to be strong, never to cry, not be weak, not listen to women, be competitive, etc. At the end of the song the son answers to his father, explaining that he doesn’t feel very virile, he plays with girls for example and he doesn’t want to become a stereotypical man but rather develop his own identity. During the whole song the music video shows the shirtless singer in a weights room. He is thin, sweated and not virile at all. I liked this music video because it uses irony to deconstruct the male stereotypes and I found that showing the opposites of the stereotypes is a good way to make people think about these already-held ideas.

[[File:Mon Kid.jpg]]

I couldn’t work on all gender stereotypes, that’s why I decided to make a list of the most obvious ones:

Virility

Physical force

Football

Beauty

Mother