Pick say five films with bad women and explore the ways in they are bad (dangerous, sexually uncontrolled by men etc) and the ways in which the narrative treats them for being bad (repositions, punishes, redeems, celebrates?)
Choose some extracts and use with a focus group of women. Are these women celebrated by a female audience for any aspects of their roles? (ie do women audiences "read against the grain" and produce oppositional reading which refuse the preferred reading?)
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Friday, 25 April 2008
The girl who couldn't find what to do
I'm stuck. you mentioned Scooby Doo but i can't find another text similar to that for comparison.
also i said Cruel Intentions but i can't find a film like THAT for comparison. The only thing they have in common in Sarah Michelle Gellar is the 'slut' in both films.
In the feminism and youth culture book, i found the most interesting thing to be similar to our previous work on feminism, that women look at themselves through the eyes of others. It seems that women to some extent are invisible in the male gaze unless they encourage men to look. But
i don't know how to represent this idea in a hypothesis or find films in which this idea is present - it is present in Scooby Doo as Velma is often ignored.
also i said Cruel Intentions but i can't find a film like THAT for comparison. The only thing they have in common in Sarah Michelle Gellar is the 'slut' in both films.
In the feminism and youth culture book, i found the most interesting thing to be similar to our previous work on feminism, that women look at themselves through the eyes of others. It seems that women to some extent are invisible in the male gaze unless they encourage men to look. But
i don't know how to represent this idea in a hypothesis or find films in which this idea is present - it is present in Scooby Doo as Velma is often ignored.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Your first ideas
Women and Film
Your ideas are somewhat too broad but I think you could usefully look at the "virgin/vamp" dochotomy in a range of contemporary films, as a way of testing whether this "regime of representation" of femininity is still confining women's roles in contemporary film. You'd either need to look primarily at popular, big-box office cinema (rather than alternative representions), but my worry is that for every film you pick there might be another wich would undermine your position. It would be better to narrow this by GENRE and only look at contemporary films from a particular genre. Is there a genre you watch a lot of which you could focus on?
Sean
Your ideas are somewhat too broad but I think you could usefully look at the "virgin/vamp" dochotomy in a range of contemporary films, as a way of testing whether this "regime of representation" of femininity is still confining women's roles in contemporary film. You'd either need to look primarily at popular, big-box office cinema (rather than alternative representions), but my worry is that for every film you pick there might be another wich would undermine your position. It would be better to narrow this by GENRE and only look at contemporary films from a particular genre. Is there a genre you watch a lot of which you could focus on?
Sean
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