Resources for Teachers - Movies
This is the first of three lessons that address gender stereotypes. The objective of this lesson is to encourage students to develop their own critical intelligence with regard to culturally inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines.
In this lesson, students identify stereotypical images of girls and women as represented by female action heroes.
In this lesson students learn about the systems used to classify films, TV programs and video games. Students are asked to take a critical look at the criteria applied to classify these media products, and then take into account and discuss the underlying social and political aspects arising from those systems.
This lesson encourages students to analyze the forensic science crime drama as a television show genre.
This lesson looks at the increasing prominence of gambling in the media, particularly movies and television.