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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"female gaze"”.
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Identities displaced and misplaced: aspects of postcolonial subjectivity in the novels of Jean Rhys
This thesis examines various aspects of female subjectivity in the characters of Jean Rhys’s five novels: Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). These aspects are informed by race, gender and class, …
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The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
… me, as a woman fantasy writer, and centered on a female protagonist and told through a female gaze, which correlates with the critical introduction.
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The ‘Woman-child’ in Fashion Photography, 1990-2015: Childlike Femininities, Performativity, and Reception Studies
… through reception studies carried out with female participants in focus groups, as well as theory on the ‘female gaze’. Images were principally drawn from three British fashion magazines: Vogue (UK), i-D, and Lula. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, this thesis …
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Women’s Voices in Lebanese Cinema: Crisis, Patriarchy and Empowerment
… through their films. Among them were pioneering female Lebanese film directors such as Heiny Srour (b. 1945), Leyla Assaf-Tengroth (b. 1946), Jocelyne Saab (1948- 2019), and Randa Chahal (1953 - 2008) who used cinema as a platform to present the perspectives of women on the war and, at the same …
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C'est de la faute de Colette: L'Intertextualité dans trois ouvrages de Régine Detambel (La Modéliste, Le Jardin Clos, Elle ferait battre les montagnes)
… qualifying for the epithet of 'prose poetry'. A female gaze which reverses the stereotypical prerogative of the male gaze is further evidence of Colette's influence. In her role as author, attention is drawn to the fact that Detambel, like Colette, has no declared intention with regard to the …
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Temporality, Spatiality and Looking in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
… viewing experience, eliminating the 'male gaze' that dominates Classical Hollywood Cinema in order to create a female oriented look. Both films are able to create Deleuzian time-images: images that are not related to or induced by action, and which subsequently present a pure and direct …