MEST4 Summer Project
1. Choose a media text and media debate/issue that you are interested in and that is less than five years old. Get this choice of text and topic approved by your coursework teacher. filled with tons of action and a bunch of overly masculine guys, including Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie. I chose this subject and film specifically because I am doing a project similar to this in my Masculinity and Media; also the famiar faces does suggest sings of masculinity (from the use of characters). This movie has all the stereotypes of manliness and masculinity which is my main case study within this project. The main characters in this movie are users of the gym which suggest that they are very concerned about their image which has lead them to become individuals of bigorexia Furthermore, who work at a gym in Miami and think they are the ultimate "alpha male". They are portrayed in the film as being very dumb but also ...