YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Male Gaze and Feminist Cinema
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Cinema, being a system...
In six pages this paper analyzes cross dressing featured in the 1982 film Tootsie through the male gaze theories of feminist autho...
is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...
more aware of themselves than they are of one another. Finally, at the behest of their leader, they begin to walk down the boardwa...
that there is an interpretation of the films in a subconscious manner. Therefore, the reinforcing is appalling to the baser self, ...
In five pages this paper discusses whether or not women are depicted as complex people trying to survive in a patriarchy or serve ...
during the middle of its cycle than during the beginning or end," or "a constellations position within the sky changes not only ea...
advance whilst reducing queues and pressures on the box office, an effective use of resources (Nellis and Parker, 2000). Many cine...
In five pages this paper examines psychoanalysis' relevance to feminist cinematic theory in a consideration of the article 'Masoch...
dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...
In five pages this research paper examines the power myth that fueled the male patriarchy and considers the feminist inroads made ...
provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...
This paper argues that although using blatant sex and sexuality to sell items is not immoral, when considering that there is still...
renderings, she was portrayed as "clothed and formal" (Anonymous, 1997a); however, in later years this image was significantly alt...
so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...
was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...
In five pages these two modes of narrative cinema are examined in terms of the differences between classic and art cinema as revea...
political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...
social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...
of her three suitors, a sex therapist, her father and her former roommate, and a lesbian acquaintance (Shes Gotta Have It). Nolas ...
Liberal feminism is characterized by operating with existing social structures to accomplish its goal or illuminating womens probl...
This five page paper discusses the way in which Margaret Thatcher could be seen as a positive influence in the feminist school of...
conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...
This paper examines the methodology of feminist criticism as it relates to traditional views of male dominance. The author review...
women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...
of power, and stresses the "rational objective and unemotional" (Tickner, 1988, p. 429). Of course these qualities-rationality, ob...
feminine, both viewpoints should be represented if balance is to be achieved (Tickner, 1988, p. 429). Morgenthaus second principl...
but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...
the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...
determine their relationships with others, as well as pull people of similar interests and often similar personalities together an...