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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GIRL: DOES THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN FILM AND THE MEDIA SHAPE WHO WE WANT TO BE?
by
Lisa Nicole Holmes
A Professional Multimedia Project Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PRINT JOURNALISM)
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Lisa Nicole Holmes
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| Title | What it means to be a girl: does the portrayal of women in film and the media shape who we want to be? |
| Author | Holmes, Lisa Nicole |
| Author email | starspell68@aol.com; lnholmes68@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Project |
| Degree program | Journalism (Print Journalism) |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-04-01 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-05-06 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Pryor, Lawrence |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kotler, Jonathan Casper, Drew |
| Abstract | Are we, as women, influenced by the women we see on the silver screen? Does watching these character’s adventures unfold make us think differently about what we want out of life? And what about the way the media portrayed the actresses who played those characters? What was it like in the 1950s and 60s to go see a film where women were bold, provocative, adventurous souls who did not always follow the rules society set for them? Did it make women want to shake off some of those societal constraints? And do films today influence women in the same ways?; These are questions the website “What It Means to Be a Girl: Does the portrayal of women in film & the media shape who we want to be?” takes a look at in a comparison of female characters in the 1950s and 60s with those seen on the screen today. It is almost unquestionable that we as a society are influenced by the films we choose to see. If they had no impact, if they did not touch some part of us, then we wouldn’t watch them. Therefore a look at just what Hollywood has told girls over the years about what it means to be a woman is definitely something to think about.; The site also features articles on the media’s coverage of actresses during the 1950s and 60s as fanaticism was growing into more of a common thing culturally and links it with the explosion of media coverage of Hollywood’s young starlets today. |
| Keyword | women; movies; film; Hollywood; scandal; love; sex; media; magazine; 1950; 1960; actress; actor; money; power; romance |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles; Hollywood |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Coverage date | 1950/1969 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3012 |
| Rights | Holmes, Lisa Nicole |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Holmes-3711 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Holmes-3711.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GIRL: DOES THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN FILM AND THE MEDIA SHAPE WHO WE WANT TO BE? by Lisa Nicole Holmes A Professional Multimedia Project Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PRINT JOURNALISM) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Lisa Nicole Holmes |
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