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my blog buddies from 13c is anika and kiran

I think my study is sort of similar to anikas as in her one she talks about women superheroes and my study mentions heroines.It also shares the same sub-genre as mine as her main text includes fantasy elements

Furthermore, we looked at similar site on women representation for instance http://mediaknowall.com/gender.html#Femininity

Keywords that overlap with both are studies are:
A- List ,Femme fatale, Stereotype,Marxist feminism,Narrative and Protagonist

In her text it shows women playing and active role similar to shrek 2 Fiona doesn’t play a passive role as she does martial arts in the begin of the film when Shrek is hanging upside down

What I learnt from looking at anika’s blog is a website which talks about women superheroes and how they are very rarely portrayed as superheroes and often played the helpless female who had to depend on the man's strength to resolve the problem. The male superheroes were constantly coming to the aid of a female and even when the female comic book superhero teamed up with her male counterpart she always took orders from him.

and

The drawing of the women in the comic books had an effect on how successful the titles were. Those that were portrayed with curvaceous figures and were very beautiful were more successful than the women who were drawn as ordinary people

This is useful as animation and comic books are similar and it could link in with how in Shrek 2 Fiona’s body as ogre is not slim and neither is fairy godmothers yet the film is still successful.

The keywords that overlap mine and kiran’s studies are:
Binary Opposition, Empathy, Fantasy, Gender, Hero, Propp, Vladimir (1895-1970), Adventure Film, Althusser, Louis (1918-90) and Blockbuster

More similarities are both our primary target audiences are children and both our main texts shares fantasy and Adventure elements. The institution that produces Spiderman Is a big budget Hollywood institution called Columbia pictures which frequently co-financed and co-distributed films with DreamWorks SKG however DreamWorks animation is an independent institution which has not collaborated with any other institutions.

What I learnt from looking at kiran’s blog is a website that could be quite useful
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/realrev.html

This is useful as its a university essay that talks about how children watch the media, and how they intake it. This will be useful to my study as my hypothesis mentions the target audience of my main text which is shrek 2.

from 13d my blog buddie is kavita

Kavita’s study talks about how the different character roles such as hero and villain segregates the black people from the white and so the representation of black people is a major issue in the American serial drama. It’s sort of similar in Shrek 2 as there are prejudice issues and in my study I am going to talk about how heroes and heroines are typical represented in contemporary animation so they overlap as we both will be looking at Propp’s theory on character roles.

Moreover, both texts are set in America

The keywords which I probably going to be using which are the same as hers are:

Stock character

Protagonist

Genre:

Genre Theory: Narrative theory: Propp, Vladamir (1895- 1970):


What I learnt from looking at her blog is about A Russian Formalist theorist, Viktor Shklovsky-Who is like Propp split narrative structure into story and plot.