Miss Representation

A solid examination of how the ridiculous narrow representation of women in media since the dawn of advertising has had a cascading effect on our perception of women and how this has shaped their place in leadership roles in society. It provides many insights into how this representation not only dehumanizes women, but reinforces the idea that women innately occupy lesser roles in society. I do wish it would have pushed the point linking patriarchy to capitalism a little bit more, though.

This film could be a great intro for young girls to the critical thought needed to understand the skewed portrayal of women in media. As a grown woman, I felt the analysis presented here was thin and the politics shallow. The facts, figures and statistics quoted are entirely unsourced, and not as generalisable as is claimed. I also would have preferred the movie to end on a bitter, truthful note than the "be the best girl you can be" Hope Montage of bullshit over the closing credits.

A very well done and cohesive piece about media literacy with regards to the representation and the effects it has on what roles are available to them. Well paced, but the music was at times a bit much. Wish it would have blamed men more.

A wonderful primer for the modern budding feminist.

Good points but it has a bit too narrow view and feels rushed.

I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. Although it has it's (brief) moments where all out men blaming arise, for the most part this is a straight forward avenue of women talking about what they can do to make women better and stronger by first holding themselves accountable. By the end Siebel even does the unheard of by including men into the issues instead of alienating them. This is the kind feminism we need now more than ever. Battle the status quo, not the opposite sex.

I felt represented for this documentary and find really amusing that a man made a review saying that the documentary has "a bit narrow view", telling this based in your experience of being a girl? 'cause speaking like one it's nice to see a discussion of women talking about what media does to other women. Man can understand, but not like a girl understands, so, this is awesome and I recommend for every girl in the world of any age.

The majority of this is what I would consider the very least that people should already be aware of. The graphics are also largely an ugly unnecessary noise (especially distracting when the start of the sentence is momentarily hidden!), the content of which isn't unimportant but it's almost impossible to absorb individual statistics when you're fed a large number of them. There are of course some incredibly important messages in this doc that should be the world's constant consideration.

awful talking-heads documentary which mainly consists of people with impressive credentials saying things at you interspersed with random statistics. that is, the usual. not to mention its politics are of the tame, diluted, liberal sort, including meaninglessly vague digs at the media and capitalism, but of course without an exploration that might *gasp* risk alienating its big-tent audience. ends with a 'call to action'. first film watched in a while due to uni.

Most of the info in this documentary was already well known to me since I do feminist media analysis, but it was very nice to hear all the different perspectives on media representation of women/girls, and I appreciated the deliberate intent to be inclusive amongst race, age, gender, class and partisan sides. I would consider it an essential introduction for anyone considering feminist media theory. It's not really meant for people like me who are already well versed in this kind of stuff.