Exam 10: How Does Gender Affect What You Watch, What You Read, and What You Play

Describe the mainstream portrayal of women in Hollywood films. Define the key components of the Bechdel Test and apply it to a film that you have recently watched. What did you find?

Asian men are generally depicted as action heroes and leading men with romantic interests and sex appeal in Hollywood films.

Discuss the various ways that leisure is gendered and describe each of the five types of leisure explored in the text. Think back to all that you have learned from the text. What might you discover about leisure by applying an intersectional lens?

Turning any object, idea, or behavior into something that can be bought and sold is known as:

Female heroes in video games, such as Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, are typically lesbians with extremely muscular bodies.

According to the documentary, Merchants of Cool, a ______ is a young woman who intentionally uses her sexuality as a means of empowerment.

Despite the perception of some white people that affirmative action policies constitute reverse discrimination, most college scholarship money still goes to white students.

Men's bodies are sexualized in advertisements as______, while women's bodies are sexualized as ______.

Female executives in television are more likely to be confined to divisions such as_________programming.

Which theoretical perspective argues that media consumption often produces passivity in an audience?

The act of having a general affinity for a fictional couple is known as_______.

According to ______, studio executives have gendered status expectations. They expect women to write romantic comedy scripts and male screenwriters to produce action, horror, and thriller scripts.

Being able to see how working-class men are depicted as incompetent and middle-class men as wise and capable in many TV shows requires an ______ understanding of gender.

Kimmel's idea of revenge allows men to escape from adult demands.

African men are often portrayed as dangerous, whereas Asian men are often depicted as passive and ______.

Studies suggest that ______ write much of the fan fiction in China.

Consider a gendered advertisement you have recently seen. Then analyze that advertisement through the lens of media power theory and audience power theory. How does each theory call attention to different features of the advertisement? Which of these two theories do you think provides the most compelling analysis? Explain.

Screenwriters were historically ______ but today are mostly ______.

A genre of fan fiction that sexualizes or romanticizes usually same-sex media relationships is known as_______.

Gender is built into the way media organizations function, such as the division of daytime and prime time TV shows.