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A2Media_CaseStudy2
REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN
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Gender inequality
Narrow range of images of women (e.g. woman as object)
Media reinforces the status quo
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The ‘male’ camera debate
The ways in which film language constructs a ‘gendered’ look
What about the female spectator’s viewing posiEon?
ObjecEficaEon
Feminist Film Theory
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Psychoanalytic theory (Freud & Lacan)
key to development of feminist film theory
IdenEficaEon always with the male
Female (passive or threat) influence of patriarchal society
Patriarchy & phallocentrism linked: phallus is a symbol of power/having
Woman has no phallus (castrated), which relates back to Freudian theory that the woman is lacking and therefore inferior
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AcEon heroine is ‘really man’ (symbolically male)
Greater emphasis on the muscularacEon heroine can be seen as anexample of this phenomenon
Feminist criEcs have responded in avariety of ways to such texts –pleasure, disgust, enthusiasm andsuspicion
Yvonne tasker- "Spectacular bodies" 1990
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Asks ‘is the gaze male?’
Argues that men and women can adoptdominant or submissive roles
But this means that the sameopposiEon (masculine/feminine) sEllexists
E. Ann Kaplan 1983
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Carol J. CloverMen, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the
Modern Horror Film, 1992
Audience identification is unstable and fluid across gender lines, particularly in the case of the slasher film.
Villain often a male whose masculinity, and sexuality more generally, are in crisis.
The phenomenon of the male audience having to identify with a female in an male-oriented genre, usually associated with sadistic voyeurism, raises interesting questions about the nature of slasher films and their relationship with feminism.
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Argues that women have been stereotyped since the silent era
ConvenEonal Hollywood narraEve an extension of the male vision
She argued for there to be a cinema where women were not portrayed in these restricted convenEons
But aware that also had to have popular appeal
Claire Johnston “Women’s Cinema and Counter Cinema” 1973