Re-writing my title; The sexualised female body in contemporary US film

Focus film; Under the Skin (Jonathon Glazer 2013)


Secondary Films; Captain America The Winter Soldier (2014 Anthony Russo & Joe Russo)


Lost in Translation (2003 Sofia Coppola)




Secondary Research Websites;
(Carole Cadwalladr 2014 The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/16/scarlett-johansson-interview-middle-ground-under-the-skin-sodastream This article from the Guardian interetes me because of how the writer portrays Johansson as an alien rather than a human. The Writer Carole Cadwalladr describes Johansson's eyelashes and hair as if they are not from any normal human life, seeming that Cadwalladr thinks Johansson is more of an alien than an actor.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-female-superheroes/ Links to Johansson because of where it mentions revealing clothing in strong female heroines and their perfect voluptuous figures. This links to Johansson as Black Widow in Captain America The Winter Soldier, her main outfit in the movie is a tight fitting black cat suit fitted with gun holsters and a weapons belt. Making her as the article says a strong female heroine but also relies on her figure as a character.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/headless-women-of-hollywood-objectification-of-women-hollywood_uk_57233748e4b0a1e971cb592b   This is a Huffington post article about research that a women is doing into the ''headless women of Hollywood' as the researcher calls them. In the article it displays an image of a movie poster. The poster of which only shows the lips, breasts and bum of the actress with her face not included. This links to this image of Johansson from Captain America The Winter Soldier.




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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11026415/Women-in-film-no-improvement-since-the-1950s.html No change since the 1950's, the number of women in Hollywood films. This article is about a study completed by the University of Southern California shows that the number of women in film since the 1950's is still a relatively small amount compared to men. The study also shows how the number of teenage girls in revealing clothing in movies has dropped in resent years but that there is still an age limit on female actors in Hollywood. Only a 24.9% of women in this study were middle aged which compared nearly 40% of men.