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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"feminist film theory"”.
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A gaze of one's own : feminist film theory, with application to Klute
… is concerned with the development of a field of film theory around the place of the female spectator. Chapter 1 presents an historical overview of some trends in the development of film theory, with emphasis on the emergence of a paradigm in which theories of semiotics, ideology and …
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Power and pleasure : the politics of film analysis and feminist community media education
This dissertation examines the value of feminist film theory for the analysis of representations of women in visual media, and the potential of media education for establishing a culture of critical viewing. Feminist film theory is thus critically considered, as are associated debates within …
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Ethnography of Indian diaspora women watching Bollywood cinema in South Africa
… and marketed. The world's largest Indian film industry based in Bombay (Mumbai), known as Bollywood, is owned by big business men who are highly patriarchal in their mindset. Since Bollywood Cinema is owned predominantly by Indian men, it is not surprising that their patriarchal values are …
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From Margins to the Center Through the Film Lens: Gender and Turkish-German Cinema
… the embodiment of the homeland. Utilizing mainly feminist and feminist film theory, along with Marxist and Marxist Feminist theories as well as elements from Queer Cinema, I analyze the depiction of male, female, gay, and lesbian gender roles in three films: <italic>Lola and Billy the Kid</italic> …
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Intimate places and flights of fancy : gender, space, and movement in contemporary costume drama
If social theory and common wisdom might posit a gendered binary between the feminine principle of stasis and a masculine principle of dynamism, contemporary costume drama presents a delightfully complex and nuanced feminist philosophical dilemma. In this dissertation, I explore the tension within …
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Identity, Desire and Spectatorship: An Examination of Germaine Dulac’s <em>La Coquille et le Clergyman</em>
Germaine Dulac's 1928 avant-garde film, La Coquille et le Clergyman, based on a script written by Antonin Artaud, presents the idea of the woman as an object of desire, subjected to the male gaze through the cinematic process. Not only is the lone female character the object of desire of her two …
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The oppositional gaze: contemporary image-making practice and the implications of skin colour ideals
… material made up of other artist’s images and films, that challenge traditions of the gaze, the thesis develops visual strategies to help re-position black, and thereby white, women’s place in visual representations, and further questions gender and identity. In approaching these questions, the …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… as a critical tool, to be applied to drama. Feminist theory from anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, and film theory is summarized and one theorist from each field is selected to serve as an example of how feminism in that field can illuminate drama written by both women and …
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Screen-to-measure: An Interdisciplinary and Embodied Approach to the Investigation of Film Noir Costumes Informed by Lady in the Dark (Mitchell Leisen, USA, 1944) and Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, USA, 1944)
Although film noir has been the subject of a significant amount of film scholarship, there is very little work that focuses on the costume design of classic Hollywood film noir. There is no scholarship on the making process of costumes in the studio system. Yet over three decades (1990-2020), the …
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Femininities Reimagined: Gender Politics in Contemporary British Moving Image Art
This dissertation explores the status of feminist moving image practice within British art institutions in the twenty-first century. Since feminist politics gained momentum and moving image emerged as an artistic medium in 1970s Britain, both the political movement and medium have undergone a …