Othello Movie

Question 1

Adaptations (Othello)

Answer 1

• has been adapted many times
• at least 25 film/ tv productions from 1908-2001

Question 2

OJ Simpson Case

Answer 2

• Parallels
• ## Black man kills wife suspecting adultery, then himself (“literary archieve”)

Question 3

Misogyny

Answer 3

• Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Miss Representation
  -2 perpetuations of misogyny
• stories that are told
• who has the power to tell the stories
• lack of women leadership/ women in roles of authority

Question 4

Women in Hollywood

Answer 4

-16 percent females are protag
-3 percent occupy “clout positions” (97 percent of the rest of the world perspective from male)
-16 percent writers, directors, producers,
- 20 percent of stories told are about women
- media can be an instrument of change or enforcing status quo

Question 5

Haggins Quote

Answer 5

• Women cannot embody the contradictions of humanity
• ” we don’t write women as human”