Pictures of The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada

Meril Streep

Anne Hathaway

These clips show the basic themes of Marxist theory, Gramsci's theory, as well as the ideas of ideology hegemony, agents, subjectivity and identity from Chris Barkers "Cultural Studies," text book as well as the effects the mass media has on the culture of the world.









These few clips show the main character Andrea struggling to change her identity in order to survive in her work environment.


This clip expresses the enormous bussiness that fashion has created, and the extreme importance of Media in order to promote and sell new trends to consumers. The behind the scenes with the actors shows the actual perception of why fashion is such a big deal to the movie and the western culture.

Response to Susan Bordo’s “Material Girl; The Effacement of Postmodern Culture”

Images of Plastic surgery..... and their effects on society.

Bordo states in her article that women are never really happy just being themselves, thus we change everything we can to make ourselves look and feel better because of specific ideologies of how our culture believes women should look. Our society is alarmingly undergoing procedures to change everything from our faces, our breasts to the amount of fat in our thighs and even the way our aged hands look. America has turned into a country where we are obsessed with looking perfect. An image determined by elitist and historical viewpoints on how women should look. The hegemonic standard place on mostly women has changed from each generation, whether wearing corsets to appear shapely to looking homely in dresses and high heels, to the Greek Goddess. Each generation through time has created specific standards on how women should appear.
Now our society has taken it one step further and included plastic surgery as a way of achieving acceptance. Bordo’s proof is that even Madonna, the once radical feminist and curve loving superstar changed her ideas and her appearance after she stated she accepted the way she looked because she did not believe that being anorexic thin was an appropriate way to promote herself. Though the Pop star has been widely known to take on new personas and become a chameleon at reinvention she has forced herself to continually change in order to preserve her marketability rate. By changing her image and by becoming a muscularly toned female she not only contradicted her earlier statements but made herself challenge the very beliefs she once represented.
New examples where the media has promoted the idea of plastic surgery is television shows such as “Nip Tuck, Extreme Makeover, The Swan, and 90210” Each show focuses on the ideas that the patient is undergoing specific procedures to fix something about themselves that inflicts unhappiness within themselves. By plasticizing themselves they are not fixing themselves from within but trying to fit a societal standard that will fix the identity they are seeking to fulfill. The question then remains can one fix things about their identities to in order to sooth the insecurities within their psyche? Is it possible to cut and paste ourselves into an identity we are more willing to accept or are we avoiding deeper psychological issues?

Modern Examples of Radical Romantic Comedy.

"The Break Up"
Jenifer Aniston and Vince Vahn's characters do not end up together. This movie shows the realities of a break up, and in life people can still be happy and not need a happily ever after ending. The break-up designed to show all the silly tactics that people do to get their mate jealous.




My Best Friends Wedding.
The first time Julia Roberts didn't get the guy. The first time a Radical Romance did great in the late 90's. Besides being my all time favorite movie, My Best Friends Wedding sheds light on the realities of mistakes people make. If you don't truly express your feelings when you have them the person you are with or had been with will end up marrying someone else who shows it. Her soul mate married someone else because she pushed him away and did not reciprocate the same feelings. In the end she has to say goodbye to the love of her life.

This clip shows Julian Potters loosing her best friend and having to say goodbye

Sex and the City, Moments that Define Carrie Bradshaw

Sex and the City; We are Real People
Carrie Falls in front on the runway, but picks herself up and keeps going. Metaphor for life. Real people pick themselves up and keep on going.



Sex and the City; "Did I really love Big?
Carrie and Big say farewell when he moves to Paris. She moves on and decides that she can no longer take the pain and questions her love to Big.



Sex and the City The Four Soul Mates
The ladies decide they don't need men to fulfill themselves, and choose their friends as soul mates and save the men for a nice time out on the town.








Sex and the City Urban Shoe Myth
- This directly relates to the Carrie Bradshaw syndrome, where the new generations, specifically women are able to achiever 30 pairs of shoes before they can save 30, 000 dollars. Link for the article is below




Sex and the City Tribute
Tribute to the Ladies and greatest moments through the series.

The Carrie Bradshaw Look

The many styles of Ms. Carrie Bradshaw....... Style Icon

Group Presentation

My Experience......

My mother always repeated what my grandmother had said to her, and said if you do not have anything nice to say, keep it to yourself. Well I am not my mother, and had she dealt with what I went through she may have changed her mind. I have never been in a group in all the years as an undergraduate or a post grad and had this experience before. With the exception of two other hard working ladies. I heard from no one. Communication was non-existent, no matter how many emails were sent out. Group assignments were given out by people who did not even bother to reply to anyone. Yes it was a crazy semester, and having 8 women try and get together to organize a project should have been possible. The one meeting we were suppose to have was can canceled about 20 minutes before I arrived at the place. Yes Fires were burning less than 2 miles from my house and my windshield was covered in ash, but I got in my car with my paper mask and found a way to get towards Encino, where I received a voice mail saying the group meeting was canceled due to poor air quality. Keep in mind the meeting was inside. The group project was nothing more than us working individually and standing as a collective in front of the class. The tension was as thick as brie cheese. Fortunately enough, things worked out, though the presentation was extremely long. I was assingned Carrie, and the men she dated. That is what I was allowed to speak of, though I tried to include her fashion and the idea that she was more complicated than the rest because of her ties to the city. Carrie was not just a fashion Icon, but a symbol for change amoung the female gender. She spoke of sex, her opinion, and changedthe culture to allow those ideas to be discussed. Her characterized "raunch ideal" changed America and allowed us to be open about our sexualities. Chris Barker states on page 313 of his text, "(Raunch )observes that women identifying within this 'culture' speak of their rights to objectify sexuality like a man, inculding looking at and enacting pornography. They reject the idea that women should behave as victims and clain the right to do whatever they want to their bodies and to look how they wish.....Rather they are entitled to rejoice in their own sexuality and to act on it in just as assertice and even predatory a way as men." His idea of raunch culture as postfeminine part-time allows the idea for it to be okay for a woman to accept her sexuality, and with this approval, others were able to feel allowed to follow ship. Carrie and the Sex and the City show broke through stereotypes and became accepted and loved by all who watched the show.