Essays on Tough Guise

Though the feminine social construct has widely been examined in the past, the masculinity construct has largely been ignored. The Tough Guise shows Katz’s enthusiasm for encouraging media literacy with regard to violence and what he refers to as the masculinity crisis. The film provides a clear insight about the role of media in promoting the societal perspectives of masculinity and the crisis that this construct provides to the society. In the film, Katz focuses on the high school and college students and focuses on the relationship between the imagery of pop culture and the social perception with regard ...

Directed, produced and written by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, 'Miss Representation' is an American Documentary film that brings out the farcical reality of women empowerment with only 17% women as elected officials in Congress and 7% as directors in Hollywood movies. The mainstream media projects women as a showpiece who needs to fit into certain parameters to look beautiful and sexy and the image of women thus created breeds an overpowering notion in the minds of young women and men that the value and power of a woman lay in her sensuality, youth and beauty and not in her ability to be a ...

Why culture and socialization cannot be reduced to an issue of shared values and how "hegemony" and "counter hegemony" cast a deeper light on the nature of social identities

Socialization refers to the process of inheriting norms, customs and ideologies. Personality views on certain issues, such as masculinity and violence as in the movie tough guise, may be socialized and to that point normalized within a society. Culture in definition is a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that portrays a society. It consists of the beliefs, behaviours and other characteristics common to the members of a particular society. Through culture, people ...