Class Work 3/12

Okay, in terms of the ARW1, it's on my googlesite! Check it out at http://www.sites.google.com/site/filmofidentity/arw1

For what we are doing in class right now (and I love working with a relatively fast laptop), I have to answer this question: What do I want to know?? It seems like it'd be a really easy question to answer because it's so simple, but that's what makes it so hard... We get into researching all this really complicated and diverse stuff and we get away from the original simplicity of what we want... So what do I want to know??

I want to know:
What is the reason for the shift?  Or I could ask: What role does capitalism play in the shift?

Okay, I've come upon a roadblock already. I don't know what to refer to what I mean by. What I'm talking about is "the shift". And by that I am talking about the... shift/change/growth? of photographs in the media that depict women in detrimental ways, the shift from the early/mid 20th century as compared to the present. The shift from Marilyn Monroe as an icon to scrawny twigs on current runways. Curves and to sharp protruding bones.  Womanly figures of real women to photoshop and the artificial look. I don't know how to sum that up in a word or two! Or even a sentence. Because I'm not saying it wasn't present in the earlier time period I'm looking at, it just wasn't as harmful on a grand scale. Though women were still commodified, they weren't artificialized to the extent they are today. Expecially in terms of weight and figure.

 I think I've got it... avoiding a name for the shift...

What do I want to know for my PAPER!
What role does capitalism play in the definition of the modern adolescent women's sense of identity?
I will look at advertising's image of women and compare and contrast images from the early/mid 20th century with current advertising photographic media.