QUESTION #7

“How To Make Your Breasts Look Bigger” video is both appropriation and re-appropriation because it is set up like an infomercial to help people with small breasts out and how Penny presents herself in a sexual way to get that point across. The film is appropriated because it is showing the idea of consumerism and how Americans will do anything to get noticed or look good for any price to reach their goal to impress. It is drawn from a role-play porno film where Penny is the desperate girl in need of a quick fix and Hank is the “buff” technician who is there to assist her, but it is conveyed through sexual dialogue, but literal translation. The film is re-appropriated because Penny see’s herself as a sexual object, and if she buys products and works out she will have bigger boobs. When Hank finally asks her if she wants to have sex, she establishes who she is by declining to make herself happy. Basically, taking back her identity that she, before, gave herself away to.