Plan For My Essay
Representation of Males in the War genre
1- Males being represented as hero's/soldiers/aggressive
to back this up in the movie Fury (David Ayer, October 22nd, 2014) this reinforces this stereotype when in the movie when the majority of the people we see are soldiers with non of them being woman, with the males
being hardened brutalist males "we are here to kill fucking Kraus scum not play with fucking dolls so get your head out of your arse and do your job solider"
in battlefield 4 they are shown as being aggressive as when they are captured, one of the soldiers spits in the face of the Chinese commander who is going to torture them
spitting represented as being one of those things you do as its dirty and can be shown as being hugely disrespectful and aggressive and can show the person who is spat at is dirty and a bit of a idiot and mean
War thunder, in the cut scene, one of the soldiers is seen stabbing a enemy solider repeatedly and then burning his dead body with some piece of burning debris (showing total aggression and anger)
a way of this being challenged is when the soldiers enter the town and one male is holding a white surrender flag meaning that he is helpless and is being a coward showing non of the male masculine qualities
of not backing down from a fight
2-Males all being tough and not showing emotions
at the beginning of the movie Norman one of the American soldiers doesn't want to kill the Germans and his crew are heavily abusing him. so he gets very angry and upset and punches the inside of the tank
Also in the middle of the movie the commander of the Sherman tank forces Norman to kill one of the Germans by pulling the trigger for him whilst he is holding the gun, when he has done this Norman breaks and he bursts
into a fit of anger and utter despair. on the other hand the tank commander doesn't actual care he just wants to get the job done.
in royal marines commando school. they all have to take what ever abuse the actual marines are throwing at them example would be "down your pants there is a pair of testicles somewhere, so get a grip"
in Battlefield 4 (EA DICE, October 29 2013) this is at the beginning the main soldiers show little regard for the female solider they are with and at the end they show extreme emotion of anger when she commits suicide to save them from being killed
before they do it you have a choice to choose who to go and one of the soldiers says "don't give it to her Wrecker, give it to me she is worth keeping alive and I'm just an expendable piece of meat"
whilst at the beginning they are say "we shouldn't have to look after her as she don't belong here" (showing total disregard for her being on the front line with them)
in Call of duty Black Ops 2 (Treyarch, November 12th, 2012) the male soldiers show heavy emotion of anger when the militia snipe one of the friends and this translates in showing no emotion to the enemy/mercy
A writer by the name of Matthew Sitter says the following items
its all started with the american film industry and then recently the gaming industry. In the USA during the second world war most of the solders where male and so the Americans wanted to promote the masculinity of war. A quote from Matthew Sitter was that, The new form of masculinity associated with the soldier can therefore be seen as a "highly selfconscious performance of gender
1- Males being represented as hero's/soldiers/aggressive
to back this up in the movie Fury (David Ayer, October 22nd, 2014) this reinforces this stereotype when in the movie when the majority of the people we see are soldiers with non of them being woman, with the males
being hardened brutalist males "we are here to kill fucking Kraus scum not play with fucking dolls so get your head out of your arse and do your job solider"
in battlefield 4 they are shown as being aggressive as when they are captured, one of the soldiers spits in the face of the Chinese commander who is going to torture them
spitting represented as being one of those things you do as its dirty and can be shown as being hugely disrespectful and aggressive and can show the person who is spat at is dirty and a bit of a idiot and mean
War thunder, in the cut scene, one of the soldiers is seen stabbing a enemy solider repeatedly and then burning his dead body with some piece of burning debris (showing total aggression and anger)
a way of this being challenged is when the soldiers enter the town and one male is holding a white surrender flag meaning that he is helpless and is being a coward showing non of the male masculine qualities
of not backing down from a fight
2-Males all being tough and not showing emotions
at the beginning of the movie Norman one of the American soldiers doesn't want to kill the Germans and his crew are heavily abusing him. so he gets very angry and upset and punches the inside of the tank
Also in the middle of the movie the commander of the Sherman tank forces Norman to kill one of the Germans by pulling the trigger for him whilst he is holding the gun, when he has done this Norman breaks and he bursts
into a fit of anger and utter despair. on the other hand the tank commander doesn't actual care he just wants to get the job done.
in royal marines commando school. they all have to take what ever abuse the actual marines are throwing at them example would be "down your pants there is a pair of testicles somewhere, so get a grip"
in Battlefield 4 (EA DICE, October 29 2013) this is at the beginning the main soldiers show little regard for the female solider they are with and at the end they show extreme emotion of anger when she commits suicide to save them from being killed
before they do it you have a choice to choose who to go and one of the soldiers says "don't give it to her Wrecker, give it to me she is worth keeping alive and I'm just an expendable piece of meat"
whilst at the beginning they are say "we shouldn't have to look after her as she don't belong here" (showing total disregard for her being on the front line with them)
in Call of duty Black Ops 2 (Treyarch, November 12th, 2012) the male soldiers show heavy emotion of anger when the militia snipe one of the friends and this translates in showing no emotion to the enemy/mercy
A writer by the name of Matthew Sitter says the following items
its all started with the american film industry and then recently the gaming industry. In the USA during the second world war most of the solders where male and so the Americans wanted to promote the masculinity of war. A quote from Matthew Sitter was that, The new form of masculinity associated with the soldier can therefore be seen as a "highly selfconscious performance of gender
This is quite detailed Declan and definitely shows that you have researched your topic but there is a lack of secondary material in the planning which is a concern.
ReplyDeleteYou have got some good examples from the games and the film but the secondary material needs to be used to illustrate the points you make, so you'll need something on masculine representations, something about the representations specific to the product you're using and I would suggest that you'll need a counterargument, for example a writer who is critical of the way war is represented, maybe someone who sees war games and films as glorifying war.
Insert some evidence of secondary research before you begin to draft your essay.