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The female gaze is a feminist theory term referring to the gaze of the female spectator, character or director of an artistic work, but more than the gender it is an issue of representing women as subjects having agency. As such, people of any gender can create films with a female gaze.
Natalie Portman may be an outspoken feminist and co-founder of a female-driven soccer club (Angel City FC), but she isn’t a believer in the so-called “female gaze.” In an interview with ...
Using clips from hundreds of movies (including her own fictional films), Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design; she also includes interviews with women and nonbinary artists, film theorists, and scholars (Joey Soloway, Julie Dash, Catherine Hardwicke, Eliza Hittman and Laura Mulvey), who discuss "the exploitative effects ...
From Miranda July’s ‘All Fours’ to Amazon’s ‘The Idea of You’ to Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton,’ stories of older women’s pleasure are coming at us hot and fast this summer, writes ...
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In Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator, Doane agrees with Laura Mulvey on cinema catering to male pleasures and the male gaze. She argues that women are too close to the object of the gaze; they struggle between feminine and masculine viewing positions, “invoking the metaphor of the transvestite.” [6] As a result of ...
Feminist film theory, such as Marjorie Rosen's Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream (1973) and Molly Haskell’s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies (1974) analyze the ways in which women are portrayed in film, and how this relates to a broader historical context.
From film to TV, music and literature, the female gaze has been promoted wholesale without shame, secrecy or euphemism. Here are some highlights from 2024. The sound of desire