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Apr. 3rd, 2011 01:40 pm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
merlin20in20
I was going to link this (http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2768439065/) and make interested/excited noises about it but, honestly, it's so tropey I actually can't help but feel a little sick.
From "Ways of Seeing: Visual Parameters of Women in Film" by Benshoff & Griffin: "...men in western culture are taught that it is their birthright to DO things (run, jump, desire, look) while women remain relatively immobile in order to be the object of the male gaze."
I am so sick and tired of my gender being relegated to the OBjective drive of the narrative, the arresting OBject of the action, the OBjectified scenery. I'm sick of watching films where I have to appropriate the white-male-hetero perspective to appreciate the material in a meaningful, thought provoking and engaged manner. I am sick to death that the only film I can even bring to mind featuring an active and presumably three dimensional SUBject is Salt (i say presumably because I havent had the opportunity to watch this film yet).
From "Ways of Seeing: Visual Parameters of Women in Film" by Benshoff & Griffin: "...men in western culture are taught that it is their birthright to DO things (run, jump, desire, look) while women remain relatively immobile in order to be the object of the male gaze."
I am so sick and tired of my gender being relegated to the OBjective drive of the narrative, the arresting OBject of the action, the OBjectified scenery. I'm sick of watching films where I have to appropriate the white-male-hetero perspective to appreciate the material in a meaningful, thought provoking and engaged manner. I am sick to death that the only film I can even bring to mind featuring an active and presumably three dimensional SUBject is Salt (i say presumably because I havent had the opportunity to watch this film yet).
