Annotated Bibliography: How Women are portrayed in Movies

McNeil, Jean. “Imagery of Women in TV Drama: Some Procedural and Interpretive Issues”
Journal of Broadcasting 19.3 (1975): 238-288. Web. 15 Dec. 2011.
In this scholarly article, Jean McNeil explains how women are being portrayed in movies by how attractive they are and how “well dressed” they are and talks about how there are basically used as sex toys for the audience. Also, she explains that women are being used to dress inappropriately on movies to draw people in to watch them on television.

This article will be helpful to my project because it provides enough and helpful information on my topic. However, it provides important statistics, such as women are being well-dressed in movies. I will be able to use that information for my paper to prove that women are used to attract people to watch it. This will be beneficial to my audience because they will be more engaged to how women are basically being used as a sex toy in movies.

University Press of Kentucky. “Women Movie Stars as Role Models.” From Mae to Madonna: Women Entertainers in Twentieth-century America. (1999): 77–106. Web.

In this scholarly article, the University Press of Kentucky explains how people think that all women in movies are all whores and the girls that aren’t are all nice and are the ones that aren’t whores. However, they also explain that women in movies are completely different in what they are in their personal lives. Women movie stars are role models to some women and men but, they are only famous because they are embodied as whores in movies. Movie directors want women that are strong-minded and confident so, that they can be more confident in the media even though they look like whores.

This article will be helpful to my project because it provides enough and helpful information on my topic. With that being