An Introduction To Feminist Theory
Opposition and representation of gender
Objectification - reducing a female and in general to an object not representing them as a person and fetishes/sexualises them, objectification of females in films.
Strong male attributes in women are represented negatively and are typically characteristics attitude to antagonist or women who are weak and fulfill the princess.
Opposition and representation of gender
Objectification - reducing a female and in general to an object not representing them as a person and fetishes/sexualises them, objectification of females in films.
Strong male attributes in women are represented negatively and are typically characteristics attitude to antagonist or women who are weak and fulfill the princess.
Male ♂
-Strong, has lots of muscles
-Is charismatic -Has lots of sexual confidence -Is a good sexual performer -Fighter -Handsome and rugged not a 'pretty' male, so the audience can identify and avoid homocratic criticism -Intelligent and cunning |
Female ♀
-Weak and vulnerable, needs protecting by a male -Shallow and indecisive
-May be shy, possessive recipient -Sexually inexperienced -Watches and screams considered as an obstacle -Hot and beautiful as well as stacked -Shallow and dumb also really clueless |
Female (strong) ♀
-Butch and has muscles could be considered as 'lesbian'
-Demanding and busy -Sluttish, promiscuous uses sex for power and to dominate men -Fighting skills are fetishised, manages to show elements of S&M and bondage -Intelligent and manipulative towards others |
Laura Mulvey's Feminist Theory
The Male gaze theory
The theory suggests that opposition and representation of gender is created, male characters are represented as
-Strong and muscly and very masculine
- Charismatic and makes a strong leader and has the alpha male qualites
-Sexually confident, sexually confident performer
-The ablility to defend himself in a fight, has to be a good fighter, with strength to fight any body
-Attractive and handsome
-Not a pretty boy, but handsome and rugged to appear masculine to the audience. He can't be pretty otherwise he'll be effeminate, look to feminie
Using Mulvey's theory females are represented as
-Weak and vulnerable
-Shallow and cant make decisions
-Sexually passive, with no sexually confidence
-Watches and screams alot, as an object
-Princess role
-Hot and beautiful big boobs stacked
-Unachievable and can't get what she wants, needs a man to
-Not intelligent.
Representation of a strong female
-A muscly woman, considerd butch, in a lesbian stereotype
-Demanding and bossy, gets what she wants
-Promiscuous with her sexual confidence
-Has the ability to use sex for power
-Her fighting is fettishized and looks sexual, appeals to the male audience, fighting looks sexual, S&M
-Manipulative towards men
Mulvey suggests that the camera slices up the female form to objectify the woman this is done to sexualise the female body parts, fettishized and an objectification of females in a film. By reducing the woman to an object doesn't represent them as equal. Visual pleasure in the narrative cinema. Mulvey states that the camera objectifies the women for the perspective of the male. The theory looks at how the camera chops up a women into body parts for male audiences viewing pleasure. This means that the male audiences can voyeuristically objectify and look at the woman and is acceptable by society.
The Male gaze theory
The theory suggests that opposition and representation of gender is created, male characters are represented as
-Strong and muscly and very masculine
- Charismatic and makes a strong leader and has the alpha male qualites
-Sexually confident, sexually confident performer
-The ablility to defend himself in a fight, has to be a good fighter, with strength to fight any body
-Attractive and handsome
-Not a pretty boy, but handsome and rugged to appear masculine to the audience. He can't be pretty otherwise he'll be effeminate, look to feminie
Using Mulvey's theory females are represented as
-Weak and vulnerable
-Shallow and cant make decisions
-Sexually passive, with no sexually confidence
-Watches and screams alot, as an object
-Princess role
-Hot and beautiful big boobs stacked
-Unachievable and can't get what she wants, needs a man to
-Not intelligent.
Representation of a strong female
-A muscly woman, considerd butch, in a lesbian stereotype
-Demanding and bossy, gets what she wants
-Promiscuous with her sexual confidence
-Has the ability to use sex for power
-Her fighting is fettishized and looks sexual, appeals to the male audience, fighting looks sexual, S&M
-Manipulative towards men
Mulvey suggests that the camera slices up the female form to objectify the woman this is done to sexualise the female body parts, fettishized and an objectification of females in a film. By reducing the woman to an object doesn't represent them as equal. Visual pleasure in the narrative cinema. Mulvey states that the camera objectifies the women for the perspective of the male. The theory looks at how the camera chops up a women into body parts for male audiences viewing pleasure. This means that the male audiences can voyeuristically objectify and look at the woman and is acceptable by society.
An Introduction To Semiotics
Sign - This is an image or an icon that has a specific meaning
Signifier - A signifier is something which conveys the meaning of something or can be interpreted as having a meaning. For example, a rose can mean love, romance, but also due to thorns signifies heartache and pain, penetration and sex and shown also by a rose.
Signified - For example red shows love, romance sex. Thrones can show, pain, penetration and heartache.
An Anchor can be used as paticular meaning and limits ambigiguilty.
A cigar has rich connotations shows wealth, power and masculinity. Male dominance, if a female in a film was to take away his cigar it is her taking away his masculinity, masculinity is taken away from male, by taking away his cigar.
A knife has negative meanings such as death, pain, violence, negative penetration and negative power over others.
Indexical Signifier - For example sweat is shown as, physical exertion, pleasure, stress, sex, lust, fear, etc. This means anchor is needed or genre is based.
As another example, a bruise shows and suggests an injury suggesting to viewer there has been a fight, abuse from another person, self harm or needle tracks to cause the person to get a bruise.
Sign - This is an image or an icon that has a specific meaning
Signifier - A signifier is something which conveys the meaning of something or can be interpreted as having a meaning. For example, a rose can mean love, romance, but also due to thorns signifies heartache and pain, penetration and sex and shown also by a rose.
Signified - For example red shows love, romance sex. Thrones can show, pain, penetration and heartache.
An Anchor can be used as paticular meaning and limits ambigiguilty.
A cigar has rich connotations shows wealth, power and masculinity. Male dominance, if a female in a film was to take away his cigar it is her taking away his masculinity, masculinity is taken away from male, by taking away his cigar.
A knife has negative meanings such as death, pain, violence, negative penetration and negative power over others.
Indexical Signifier - For example sweat is shown as, physical exertion, pleasure, stress, sex, lust, fear, etc. This means anchor is needed or genre is based.
As another example, a bruise shows and suggests an injury suggesting to viewer there has been a fight, abuse from another person, self harm or needle tracks to cause the person to get a bruise.