Ignite Talk

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• 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
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• Some key words
• The gaze
• Objectification
• Realization
• Identification
• scopophilia
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• 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
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• Did you know
• Alfred Hitchcock films are good examples of the FFT
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• 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
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• Anneke Smelik
• Believes that early feminist criticism was directed at stereotypes of women, mostly in Hollywood films
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• 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
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• Scopophilia 
• Pleasure from looking
• Most exemplified in silent films
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• 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.
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• 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?