Feminist Film Theory and Silver Linings Playbook Silver Linings Playbook, is a film directed by David O. Russell, that follows a former teacher named Pat (Bradley Cooper) who is released from a psychiatric hospital for bipolar disorder after an eight month stay. His main goal after his release is to win back his ex-wife, Nikki (Brea Bee), whom he caught cheating for another man. Having been emotionally distressed for what had happened, he violently attacked the other man, almost killing him, which
Film making has gone through quite the substantial change since it’s initial coining just before the turn of the 19th century, and one would tend argue that the largest amount of this change has come quite recently or more so in the latter part of film’s history as a whole. One of the more prominent changes having taken place being the role of women in film. Once upon a time having a very set role in the industry, such as editing for example. To mention briefly the likes of Dede Allen, Verna Fields
Horror genre films have been produced since the beginning of movie making. Though the word "horror" to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930’s. This was after Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein both in 1931. One of the first horror movies created was The Mummy (1932) and it was directed by Karl Freund. The movie was a huge success and many remakes followed for years to come. This film had no official sequels, but rather semi-remakes done over the years. In 1999
Steinem. This feminist movement in culture artists began to “embrace the persuasive powers of art to communicate with a wide audience.” These artists were investigating social dynamics of power and privilege, focusing in on gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Since Sherman created artwork during this time that held many qualities as discussed before, many have looked at the effectiveness and method of creating compelling feminist photography. Sherman has an influence over feminist art because
With the help of the feminist movement in the 1970’s, this paper will reflect on women expressing their views about photography, cinema and the arts all pertaining to the male gaze and will include artists such as Cindy Sherman and Artemisia Gentileschi. Along with feminists, Laura Mulvey and feminist scholar Mary D. Garrard. Each of these women has an important argument along the lines of the male gaze. The male gaze in photography, cinema, and the arts, objectify women in their femininity, sexual
Feminist theory examines sexuality through a lens that is very critical of male-dominated power structures that perpetuate the subordination of women. Many feminist scholars argue that the institution of heterosexuality itself is a construct, or “a beachhead of male dominance” (p. 633), according to Adrienne Rich in her essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980). From a feminist theoretical standpoint, humans develop sexuality as their gender identities develop: “our sexual desires
his room. In this sequence, for proving their hypothesis about the ring, Lisa climbs up the window and reaches Thorwald’s house to find the marriage ring of Mrs. Thorwald. This plot is one of most tense parts of this film, and this is also the transition of the narrative of the film, from which Jeff (James Stewart) begins to be confronted with the murderer face to face. At the end of this sequence, Mr. Thorwald stepped into the house and we see the his shadow on the windowpine. As the much of
Showalter’s Idea’s to Branagh's Film Version of Hamlet Elaine Showalter begins her essay, Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism, by criticizing analyses of Shakespeare's Hamlet that have virtually ignored the character of Ophelia in the past. The feminist critic argues that Ophelia is an important character in her own right, not just a foil to Hamlet. Further, she says that Ophelia's story is important to tell from a feminist perspective because it allows
Discuss the ways in which feminist theories have informed a contemporary understanding of media and gender. Consider at least TWO feminist perspectives in your answer. This essay will explore various feminist theories, which have accompanied with the contemporary ideas of media and gender, in relation to the feminism theory and individual analysis with feminist perspectives in mind. “Gender is not exactly the same as sex; moreover, sex is more physiological, whereas gender can be considered more
In the late 1960 to 1980s when the woman artists’ work hardly could be published, unlike the men, the feminists artists were rejected by the museums, galleries and many women. The issue was that nobody could see how woman had so much valued art works to show. Only the male artists were allow to be published as artists, while the women suffered of discrimination. What the women wanted was that the world treat them as equals to men. The woman wanted something different than the men. This world has
find the answer of how she has an impact on young women today to explore how some of the young celebrities today became successful. Despite the sex symbol Monroe has created for herself, she has many feminist characteristics, and perhaps she was not even aware of it. I am arguing that Monroe is a feminist because she is an independent, professional woman, she is courageous to express herself, and she is self-actualized. Banner, Lois. “Marilyn: The Passion and Paradox.” New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Print
History of Feminist theory in films Feminist theory was derived from the social movement of feminism where political women fight for the right of females in general and argue in depth about the unequality we face today. In the aspect of cinema, feminists notice the fictitious representations of females and also, machismo. In 1974, a book written by Molly Haskell "From Reverence to Rape: The treatment of Women in Movies" argues about how women almost always play only passive roles while men are always
The issue at the heart of the David Fincher film, Fight Club, is not that of man’s rebellion against a society of “men raised by women”. This is a film that outwardly exhibits itself as promoting the resurrection of the ‘ultra-male’, surreptitiously holding women accountable for the decay of manhood. However, the underlying truth of the film is not of resisting the force of destruction that is ‘woman’, or of resisting the corruption of manhood at her hand, but of penetrating the apathy needed to
as a feminist artist by art historians and scholars since the early 1980s as her earliest series were created, Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980) and Centerfolds (1981). The Untitled Film
Feminist social theory ought to challenge the ideals of Classical social theory embodied by the work of authors, such Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel. Such traditional values tend to exclude women from their social analysis of the modern world, as women were considered non social agents. In support of this, Durkheim claim that men were product of society, whereas women belonged to nature, (Harrington: 2005, p.236). Thus, feminist social theory embrace post-enlightenment principles, focusing on values
FEMINIST FILM THEORY Feminism fundamentally is a critical approach towards gender bias and social campaign for equal rights of all, irrespective of their gender. Feminist point of view in films came into existence due the inadequate and incorrect representation of women. (Shodhganga inflibnet) The concepts like femininity and masculinity are often misrepresented in films. (Smelik, 1999) The feminist approach to cinema asks questions like: How is woman depicted on screen, How are her issues dealt
intellectualizations of the highbrow modernist/feminist movements have been largely stripped away, leaving little but an easily digestible skeletal foundation. The aim of such a method is to target a younger demographic than traditional critique would usually focus upon. The television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer is such a vehicle, presenting feminism in a postmodern form 'for the masses'. While this works to reveal an 'acceptable', albeit feminist, perspective of gender and identity, following
toward women….an attitude of mixed adulation, pity and fear toward women” in his films. Ozu Yasujiro, in such films as I Was Born But… (1932), features female characters who are passive and fail at keeping their family together once patriarchal power goes missing. Sharp contrasts are the films of Naruse Mikio whose heroines, “are thinking, active women." Contemporary Japanese movie director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s films are diverse in that each holds either a progressive or conservative representation
Researchers use Feminist Theory to comprehend sexual orientation with the hopes of creating social improvements imperative to the good fortune of women. Women’s activist researchers do not agree on everything and usually focus on subareas over the order of media. Feminist theory focuses on crumbling the discrimination of gender. Understanding the relationship between shifted territories of women's activist in the media grant their major distinction and their shared characteristics help in growing
“Performative Acts and Gender Construction: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” explains and explores the performativity of gender, and problematizes Simone de Beauvoir’s understanding of “What is a Woman?” Riva Leher, artist and author, reflects on the intersections between sex and disability in a personal essay, “Golem Girl Gets Lucky.” Both texts aid us in exploring how we must examine disability as a feminist issue, since oppressive forces faced by women are part of the same social