Posts Categorized "Marvel Superheroes and Their Gendered Displays on Official Movie Posters"Page 1 of 2
by Erin Vits
Relative Size: Absent. Peter Parker is more so in the foreground of the photo Feminine Touch: Absent Function Ranking: Absent The Family: Absent Ritualization of subordination: Absent Licensed…
Relative Size: Absent Feminine Touch: Absent. She is taking a strong dominant pose Function Ranking: Absent The Family: Absent Ritualization of subordination: Absent Licensed Withdrawal: Captain Marvel maintains…
Relative Size: Ant-Man is the largest character, followed by Hope/Wasp and Scott Lang. Otherwise the other women are either equivalent or larger than the rest of the male…
Relative Size: The largest character is Thanos although he is in the background of the poster. Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor are also notably larger than the…
Relative Size: Black Widow is the largest character portrayed on the poster as well as the only one with a full body shot. Feminine Touch: Absent however Black…
Relative Size: Though technically absent, I think it’s notable to point out how much larger the Hulk appears on the movie poster when compared to his human counterpart,…
Relative Size: I would personally say that Thor, Hela, and the Hulk are all roughly the same size. However, Valkyrie is significantly smaller even though she has a…
Relative Size: Black Widow and Scarlett Witch are neither the smallest nor largest characters displayed on the poster. Feminine Touch: Absent. The women aren’t holding weapons either Function…
Relative Size: Black Widow is portrayed in the midground of the picture being neither the largest or smallest character on the poster. Feminine Touch: Absent. Black widow is…
Relative size: Jane and Thor are the center focus with full body shots. However, there is a villain in the upper left hand corner who is technically the…
Relative Size: Pepper Potts and Tony Stark are both the same size on the poster. There are no other women present. Feminine touch: Absent. However, Pepper Potts has…
Relative size: The men are all larger than the two women Black Widow and Pepper Potts besides the villain, Ivan Vonko. Feminine Touch: Absent. Neither woman is holding…
Relative Size: It’s difficult to discern relative size given that the poster contains so many visual elements and characters. Most noticeably, Thanos is the largest character on the…
Relative Size: T’Challa is the largest character portrayed on the poster followed by Erik and then the other characters get smaller in size as they descend from the…
Relative size: Spider-Man, Tony Stark/Iron Man, and Peter Parker are both noticeably larger than the other characters portrayed on the poster. Feminine Touch: Absent, but the women are…
Relative Size: I think all characters are relatively the same size considering the differences in body masses for the actual characters. For instance, Rocket is the size of…
Licensed withdrawal: Dr. Strange is makes a direct piercing stare at the viewer The Doctor Strange movie poster is quite uncharacteristic in comparison to Marvel’s other movie posters…
Relative size: Ant-man/Scott Lang are the largest depitictions on the movie poster. Paul Rudd as Ant-man is in the foreground with a full body shot. Both Ant-man/Scott Lang…
This movie poster is from the second Avengers movie, Age of Ultron. Please note: I’m analyzing all of the first release films and all Avengers movies first, and…
This is the official movie poster for the first Guardians of the Galaxy. Relative Size- Peter Quill is the largest character on the poster followed by Gamora then…