Ignite Talk

• Slide five
• The reason being
• Such fixed and endlessly repeated images of women were considered to be objectionable distortions which would have a negative impact on the female spectator
• Slide seven
• Some key words
• The gaze
• Objectification
• Realization
• Identification
• scopophilia
• Slide eight
• What is this theory
• In the 1970's the first attempt at analyzing came when they focused on the functions of the women in particular film narratives or genres trying to see if there were any types of stereotypical views of women
• Slide nine
• Did you know
• Alfred Hitchcock films are good examples of the FFT
• Slide eleven
• Interesting fact
• Even if he was a good example of the FFT; Alfred Hitchcock was very possessive over his female leads.
• Teppi Hedren stated recently that Hitchcock was a sadistic sexually predator
• Slide thirteen
• Laura Mulvey
• Coined the term "the gaze"
• She believed that the cinema during her time acted as an advancement of the gaze, meaning that men wielded power and pleasure by gazing at women
• Slide fourteen
• Anneke Smelik
• Believes that early feminist criticism was directed at stereotypes of women, mostly in Hollywood films
• Slide fifteen
• The masquerade 
• It has become a general assumption of feminist film theory that female spectators are more fluid in their capacity to identify with the other gender(1).
• Understand that the masquerade, not as cross-dressing, but on the contrary as a mask of femininity(1).
• Ex) Jacques Tourneur's Anne of the Indies
• Female must dress as a man
• Slide sixteen
• Scopophilia 
• Pleasure from looking
• Most exemplified in silent films
• Slide seventeen
• Did you know
• Feminist critics frequently consider filmic point of view (including reaction shots, showing who gets to look) as an indication of power or control within the movie.
• Slide eighteen
• Camera angle matters
• In the color purple the male power is enhanced by filming from a relatively high camera angle
• Slide two
• Question for you
• Does believing in the feminist film theory make you a feminist?

Final Project!

For the final project I decided to expand further on my third mini project because I felt like it represented my topic the best. I chose to use Storify to present my information because it gave you the option to use work from others, which I value for a project like this. Sometimes another person can explain something better than yourself. The project as a whole is about the Feminist Film Theory, it is not meant to change your view of the films that you see, but it is meant to grab your attention on the issue of how women are seen in the eye of media like films and photography. This theory is not brought up a lot because of the word Feminist, people automatically repel at the idea of it, at no point during this assignment did I change what I believe it just gave me a better understanding of what occurs in media.


http://storify.com/acraver7/the-feminist-film-theory 

Mini Project 3

For my third mini project I decided to use Storify for one sole purpose, it allowed me to collaborate with the works of others to make my point. As I did last project I dove deeper into the Feminist Film Theory because it gave me a different view on how you can analyze a film to fit the needs of your opinion. I chose to look into a professor named Laura Mulvey who coined the term The Gaze, which simply means how a man looks at a woman as a desired object instead of a normal human being. Mulvey uses Alfred Hitchcock' Rear Window as the main critic and puts her theory to the movie.

Here is the link to my Storify

http://storify.com/acraver7/the-feminist-film-theory

Mini Project 2!!!!!!!!!

For this mini project I stepped out a little from my Women Representation in Popular Culture to a more Feminist in film concept. After an interesting source I was able to gain insight into why women want to be represented fairly; the main reason being that they wanted someone(a character) that they could relate to without all of the usual drama that surrounds being a women. I chose to do an infographic because it is easier to read and it allows you to put more visuals. From my last project I refined my search to a sub-category within my initial topic because it was to broad and I can still use the same resources.

Here is the link if you would like to see it larger.

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/d0c3b3a9-74f9-439e-aa68-dc81f09de6f5

Mini Project Number One!

http://issuu.com/acraver7/docs/what_passes_the_bechdel_test?mode=window

The above link is to my photo essay on the Bechdel test and way each selection either passes or failes.

REFLECTION:

My 'question' of inquiry for this assignment is "Why are women represented the way they are and why do some not fight for themselves?" So t took me a little bit of time to decide how I wanted to construct this first project then finally I chose to do a photo essay on films, tv shows and books/authors that pass the Bechdel test. The main reason I used the Bechdel test as one of my resources was the fact that you were given reasons behind the rating that the movies got in regards to the test itself. So I found 10 examples that I thought seemed like good candidates for the test. The first five examples show strong female characters who fight for the way that they want to be seen by the men in there lives/workforce, those types of women in a real life situation is not easy to find because most times women are the ones picking up the slack from men and not getting any credit from it. Those situations are the ones that I want to figure out why the women do not fight for the representations that they deserve.  To make it easier to understand I added a section of what didn't pass the test because it really puts this topic into realization for individuals.

Passing the Bechdel Test

On Monday when I was reading the comments that Lacy made on my Project Reflection, she mentioned that I could use the Bechdel Test on the examples that I plan to use on the first Mini Project. Since my topic of choice is Women Representation in Popular Culture, this test will help me determine if certain movies, television shows and books represent women in the way that they should be represented. Along with using the Bechdel Test, I was planning on using a Photo Essay to show the results that I have come up with. Using a Photo Essay will allow me to display examples that pass the test and why they passed; personally I believe that this method will help me get my information across.

There are three rules to the Bechdel Test:

• There must at least two women
• The two women must talk to each
• The conversation can not be about men

Here is a link to the website: 

http://bechdeltest.com/

Finding the right topic

In Monday's class we were asked to expand on some of our previous topics in class that we could use for our mini projects. Lacy asked us to make a chart with four slots; we had to label them daybook, blogs, other blogs and misc., once we had finished labeling we were told to go back through everything we have done in the first half of the semester and pick out what stood out to us.

When I finally decided on two topics that I felt strongly about I knew that this was going to be easy for me to complete. The topics that I chose were Women in Popular Culture and Heroism, these were two topics that I have strong feelings towards and I feel like I could make one heck of a project on it.