Feminism
) What are the two texts the article focuses on?
2) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)?
3) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form?
4) Choose three words/phrases from the glossary of the article and write their definitions on your blog.
1) Beyonce and Pan Ann
2) The main characters cause male characters in the airport to turn and stare in the opening scene which is a blatant example of male gaze as we are watching from their perspective. She also mentions the slow-motion shots that allow us to marvel at their beauty which in return isn't us watching from their perspective, but a males.
3) These texts show that there is progression yet it doesn't go against all sexism issues like rape and sexual harassment. It is a start to a new wave of feminism as it challenges the way we look all at women which leads to said crimes.
4) Feminism – A movement aimed at defining, establishing, and defending women’s rights and equality to men.
Male Gaze – The gaze referring to Laura Mulvey’s seminal article ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ which argues that main stream Hollywood films subject female characters to the ‘male gaze’ of the camera,
2) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)?
3) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form?
4) Choose three words/phrases from the glossary of the article and write their definitions on your blog.
1) Beyonce and Pan Ann
2) The main characters cause male characters in the airport to turn and stare in the opening scene which is a blatant example of male gaze as we are watching from their perspective. She also mentions the slow-motion shots that allow us to marvel at their beauty which in return isn't us watching from their perspective, but a males.
3) These texts show that there is progression yet it doesn't go against all sexism issues like rape and sexual harassment. It is a start to a new wave of feminism as it challenges the way we look all at women which leads to said crimes.
4) Feminism – A movement aimed at defining, establishing, and defending women’s rights and equality to men.
Male Gaze – The gaze referring to Laura Mulvey’s seminal article ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ which argues that main stream Hollywood films subject female characters to the ‘male gaze’ of the camera,
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