1. Avoiding the Advertising Trap
For example, in the film Killing Us Softly, Kilbourne explains that advertisers are constantly utilizing images of women's breasts, no matter if the ad is relating to beauty products or a product that has nothing to do with the women such as an ad of a fishing net or a sports car. ... The film "Sexual Stereotypes in the Media" defines the term "stereotype" as effective because they are recognizable symbols and they divide the world into two groups: male and female. Hence, the audience bases their understandings from home, school, or work, and categorizes things from what we see in real li...
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