Visual monograph. Visual & Performing Arts Essay.

Visual Monograph: The Devil Wears Prada. 
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The Devil Wears Prada is a movie from a screenplay by Aline Brossh McKennea based on the bestseller novel by Lauren Weisberger published in 2003. The filming began in 2005 and the 20th Century Fox was the distributor of the film that was produced by Wendy Finerman Productions and Dune Entertainment. The movie stars Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a powerhouse in the fashion industry and Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs, a recent graduate who moves to New York and lands a job as an assistant. Despite her ridicule for naivety in the fashion world, Andrea becomes assistant to Miranda who is the editor in chief of the Runway Magazine. Andrea's shallowness in fashion makes her a laughing stock that sees her approach art director Nigel for fashion advice. Eventually she ends up adapting to more fashionable clothes that makes Miranda respect and give her more responsibilities. The Devil Wears Prada epitomizes female power in love, relationships, and careers in a twisted paradoxical perspective. Feminine dominance in the movie juxtaposes gender wars in contemporary societies in a more complex approach disguised in the aura of perfect cinematography and structure.
Miranda Priestly and Andrea Sachs bring life to their characters in showing the evolution of female power. The two show shrewdness in ascending the corporate pinnacle of the luxurious media industry, an enviable position by many women in society. The differences between Miranda and Andrea are a representation of two different worlds. Miranda wants power and is not afraid to ask for it. On the other hand, Andrea wants power but is fearful of recognition and claiming it as many women are in society.
Andrea's imminent fear of claiming her power stems from her fear of father and brother and what they will say, she wants everyone to like her. An in-depth look reveals many women hold back from their full potential because of the hurdles superimposed by society. They are afraid of breaking glass ceilings lest they are labeled "feminists" or illegitimate (Vial, et al. 400-414). Andrea is the voice of a patriarchal society that depicts the dominant narrative of power and women. She is used as a canvas to paint how women absorb the full weight of societal expectations regarding how powerful women should be. Her boyfriend, father, and brother's lack of support shows how unwilling society is to support women trying to break off the bandwagon choosing between their careers and their family or friends. 
Miranda, however, is a power feminist. She symbolizes the subordinate narrative that it is okay for women to desire power, seek it, and use it and push the debate that women are as capable jus...