December 2011
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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) →
Laura Mulvey is best known for her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen. It later appeared in a collection of her essays entitled Visual and Other Pleasures, and numerous other anthologies. Her article was one of the first major essays that helped shift the orientation of film...
To all you wonderful FYWIC followers:
I owe you fabulous people an apology for having essentially abandoned this blog for the past week or so. I’ve been working on my college dissertation (on feminist film theory, of course) and I haven’t had very much time to troll the interwebs for the best and brightest female cinematic talent.
I’m still in the middle of work but you can hopefully expect far more regular posts....
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peppermintpunk asked: Thank you so much for making this blog. It's awesome.
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Women were written out of history as active participants in the production and creation of film, film movements, special effects, the star system, the studio system, independent and experimental forms, and genres. It seems as if historians were primarily interested in women in front of the camera as actors and sex objects. Creative women, however, were very much participants in the history of...
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The Hollywood Reporter: 5 Of Hollywood's Female... →
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J’ai faim, j’ai froid (I’m hungry, I’m cold), a short film by French filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
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carrie-brownsteinsfringe asked: This blog is so rad.
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“I didn’t want to write about two stupid women, or two evil women who go on a crime spree. I wanted to write about two normal women. The definition of women as presented in films and plays is so narrow, so limiting. I noticed that when I was acting: How many times did I play a prostitute? Dramatically, it seems one out of every four women is a prostitute. Where are the real people?...
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