Perspectives: Thesis Proposal Mindmap

• Judith Butler
• Gender as performative
• Gender trouble
• Defining gender vs sex vs sexuality
• Sex- physical
• Gender- mental/ emotional
• Sexuality- attraction
• How the title was actress for female actors but has now been changed to actors
• Was it sexist or politically correct?
• Big topic- so what kind of gender representation and in which films
• Casting Eddie Redmayne in drag vs authentic trans casting in Tangerine (2015) + A fantastic women
• Hollywood's expectation of gender aesthetic and behaviour
• Repression
• Hyper masculinity/ hyper femininity 
• Muscly and manly
• Idealised body imagery
• Lead female roles developing over the years
• Rocky horror picture show
• Original vs remake
• Tim Curry as Frank N Furter
• Laverne cox (trans) as Frank N Furter
• Fan responses to female casting
• Ghostbusters
• New star wars
• #metoo era
• Women directors
• Wonder women
• Freud?
• Lancan cultural theorist
• Other genders
• Representation of transgender
• Transgender actors
• The dutch girl
• Male actor acting as transgender
• Female archetype trends in current cinema
• Femme fatale
• Manic pixie dream girl
• Rebel goth girls
• Cindy Sherman
• Artist
• Explores gender stereotypes in movies
• Representation of genders
• Sexism over the years
• Improving?
• Idea of what defined each gender
• 1920's hysterectomy makes you not female
• Shakespeare plays and how males played female roles
• Cracks in the pedestal- Philip green 1998 book
• Hollywood's vision of team sports: heroes race and gender- Deborah v. Tudor
• Mad men- self aware and female roles developing
• Roles in society and how are the genders being represented
• Product placement- representing what the genders should wear or be like
• Maybe look at Hollywood stars
• Gender
• How the media shows them or describes them
• Inappropriate?
• Have they been treated like they have to be objectified or geared up to Hollywood problems

My next step is to research these ideas, expand on them and do my own research in order to put together my proof of concept presentation