Visual Culture – Feminism and Film Seminar

Feminism and Film

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mid 1800's - Woman study freely

First Wave

• Suffragettes 

Second Wave

• Replaced men in jobs when they went to war

Third Wave

• Social reform
• Riot Girl
• Racial Representation
• 1990's
• Ladette

Fourth Wave

• 2008
• Rise of internet and social media
• Quick responsive thinking

Betty Friedan - The Femme Mystique 

Marxist Feminist

• blame class system

Radical Feminist

• blame patriarchy for gender

Liberal Feminist

• argue legal reform can bring change

Feminist Film Theory

Laura Mulvey  Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema - 1975

"Male Gaze"

Woman subjected to free gazes

Role of woman within a film 

Freud

Jacques Lacan: The Gaze

Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex - 1949

John Berger - Ways of Seeing - 1972

Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth - 1990

Subversion of the male gaze

Petra Collins

Ashley Armatage 

LGBTQ and Film

1791 - France decriminalizes homosexuality 

1895 - Trial Of Oscar Wilde

1920's freedom

Stonewall riots

Hayes Code

Claude Cobun

Gender performance

Romaine Brooks

Ed Wood

50's "witch hunt"

Someone likes it hot

Scorpio Rising - Kenneth Anger - 1964

AIDS

Queer Cinema - 1990's

Disenfranchised Youth

Riot Grrl

Grunge

Embrace everybody

Queer Theory

Rejection of stereotypes

gender fluidity

Judith Butler - Theorist

Gender Trouble - 1990 - Gender is performance

gender fluidity

Seminal LGBT + Films

My Own Private Idaho

Orlando - 1990

Paris Is Burning - 1993

Happy Together

Show Me Love - 1998

Boys Don't Cry - 1999

Mysterious Skin 

Milk

A Single Man - 2009

Blue Is The Warmest Colour - 2013

Tangerine - 2015