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Su, Donghui. "两代中国女性导演视角下的女性电影中女性意识之比较研究 : —以《人鬼情》和《送我上青云》为例". Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37596.
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As a product of the western feminist movement, feminist films have become an important tool for displaying feminist connotations and reflecting femalec onsciousness. With the advancement of society and the awakening of female consciousness, feminist film theory, criticism and practice have gradually taken a place in the film system dominated by male discourse power, and have constantly tried to speak for women on the big screen. After China's reform and opening up, feminism took root in China. In the 1980s, under the influence of western feminist film theory and practice, Chinese female filmmakers also began to try to express the situation and demands of Chinese women through films. After more than 40 years of drastic changes in reform and opening up, major changes have taken place in alllevels of current Chinese society. Chinese feminism and feminist films have also changed in accordance with the trend of the times. When the next generation of feminist filmmakers stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, they incorporate the spirit of the new era for the expression of feminism. This article selects two representative Chinese feminist films, which are "Woman Demon Human" and "Send Me to the Clouds". Through the comparison and analysis of the thematic contents, narrative styles and lens languages of the two films, the differences between the two are revealed in three aspects of feminist connotation,which include the subjective consciousness, female desires and gender differences.<br>作为西方女性主义运动的产物，女性主义电影成为了展现女性主义内涵和反映女性意识的重要工具。随着社会的进步和女性意识的觉醒，女性主义电影理论、批评与实践在以男性话语权为主导电影体系中渐渐占据了一席之地，并不断尝试在大荧幕上为女性发声。中国改革开放后，西方女性主义思潮进一步影响中国。八十年代中国的女性电影人在西方女性主义电影理论与实践的影响下，也开始尝试通过电影来表达中国女性的处境和诉求。在经历改革开放四十多年的剧变后，当下的中国社会各个层面都发生重大变革。中国的女性主义以及女性主义电影也顺应时代的潮流而改变。下一代的女性主义电影人站在前辈们的肩膀上，为女性主义的表达融入了新时代的精神。 本文从上世纪八十年代和近十年的中国影坛选取两部具有代表性的女性主义电影——《人鬼情》和《送我上青云》，并通过对两部电影在主题内容、叙事方式和镜头语言上的分析，发现两部电影在呈现女性意识的三个不同方面——主体性意识、女性欲望和性别差异上的表达呈现出不同的侧重点。由此，从而以小见大，从局部来窥见两个时代的女性主义电影所反映的女性主义的时代性内涵。
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Myrup, Emilia, and Mikaela Hargell. "Genusanalysmetoder i film : En jämförelsestudie av Actor-Network Theory, Connotation Frames och Bechdeltestet." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Bildproduktion, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-29296.
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Denna kandidatuppsats undersöker och jämför tre olika metoder för analys av film med grund i ett genusperspektiv. De metoder som undersöks är Bechdeltestet, Connotation Frames och slutligen en analysmetod som vi valt att referera till som Film Actor-Network Theory (FANT). Med FANT kan man analysera film genom att se till karaktärerna och deras fiktiva sociala nätverk. Filmerna som används för analys av metoderna är Juno (2007) och Fight Club (1999). Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka dessa analysmetoder och se hur effektivt de belyser jämställdhet i film. Resultatet är att dessa metoder belyser jämställdhet på olika sätt. Connotations Frames och FANT analyserar på en djupare och mer ingående nivå än Bechdeltestet. Connotation Frames ser till makt och agens i handling och dialog, och Bechdeltestet gör en snabb analys om två kvinnliga karaktärer pratar med varandra om något annat än män. Appliceras alla analysmetoder på en film kan det visa på ett resultat som är närmare en heltäckande genusanalys.
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Chan, Lai Man Amelia. "Nicole Kidman :gender equality and feminist ideology in films." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953456.
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Danino, Regina. "Experimental film : Catholic and feminist readings of my films (2010-2016)." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2017. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/q32q8/experimental-film-catholic-and-feminist-readings-of-my-films-2010-2016.
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The commentary addresses the works in the Research Portfolio (2010-2016) which consists of three films and one multi-media installation. These films are experimental but look very different from my previous work. This reflects my decision to address figuration and realist representation in order to expand and develop my experimental film language. The works are collective and individual portraits of women in monastic life, and one is a portrait of a young girl in a Catholic iconography. In these new works I find out what happens when you insert direct works about religion into an art space that is not expecting them and has no context ready for them. My aim is to see how that changes and tests the binaries of religion/art, traditional/experimental. The commentary investigates the works through a Catholic framing/perspective; close reading as a method of viewing the work, and a feminist analysis that provides gendered readings of the works. These three come together to open a space of reflection and a critical perspective on the films. The commentary shows how the works open a space for a religious subject to emerge: one not hitherto represented in the context of experimental film.
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Nyh, Johan. "From Snow White to Frozen : An evaluation of popular gender representation indicators applied to Disney’s princess films." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36877.
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Simple content analysis methods, such as the Bechdel test and measuring percentage of female talk time or characters, have seen a surge of attention from mainstream media and in social media the last couple of years. Underlying assumptions are generally shared with the gender role socialization model and consequently, an importance is stated, due to a high degree to which impressions from media shape in particular young children’s identification processes. For young girls, the Disney Princesses franchise (with Frozen included) stands out as the number one player commercially as well as in customer awareness. The vertical lineup of Disney princesses spans from the passive and domestic working Snow White in 1937 to independent and super-power wielding princess Elsa in 2013, which makes the line of films an optimal test subject in evaluating above-mentioned simple content analysis methods. As a control, a meta-study has been conducted on previous academic studies on the same range of films. The sampled research, within fields spanning from qualitative content analysis and semiotics to coded content analysis, all come to the same conclusions regarding the general changes over time in representations of female characters. The objective of this thesis is to answer whether or not there is a correlation between these changes and those indicated by the simple content analysis methods, i.e. whether or not the simple popular methods are in general coherence with the more intricate academic methods.<br><p>Betyg VG (skala IG-VG)</p>
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Hamilton, Jayne. "Gender representation and textual strategies in the films of Pilar Miro." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/286.
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This thesis aims to demonstrate the interrelatedness of the rebellious form and content of Pilar MirO's first six films - La petición (1976), El crimen de Cuenca (1979), Gary Cooper gue estás en los cielos (1980), Hablamos esta noche (1982), Werther (1986) and Beltenebros (1991). The Introduction provides a brief outline of the director's life and an insight into some of the core themes of her cinema, summaries of relevant theoretical arguments from psychoanalysis and gender theory in the context of sociology and film studies and an outline of the situation of men and women in Spain vis-à-vis the law, social prejudices, attitudes to sexuality and work. Part I (chapters 1-6) examines gender issues and character portrayal in each of the films in chronological order using these theories. Part II deals with the metafictional textual strategies of Miró's works. Chapter 7 outlines features of metafiction, such as stylistic intertextuality, literal intertextuality, mise-en-abime devices and other cinematic strategies which highlight the constructed nature of the films by laying bare the processes of fictional creation and disturb the viewer, making him or her an active reader, who cannot acquiesce in a passive spectatorial position. It also discusses the issue of authorship in film to posit that Miró abdicates from the position of onmiscient auteur through intertextuality and her use of assistant authors, another strategy of metafictional, postmodern art. Chapters 8 and 9 look at specific examples of intertextuality. The first section of chapter 8 examines the thematic and stylistic influence of the American artist, Edward Hopper, on the setting of Beltenebros and José Gutiérrez Solana's tremendista paintings as a visual reference for El crimen de Cuenca: the chapter also takes into account the joint stylistic influence of Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949) on Beltenebros. The second section of chapter 8 applies theories of historiographic metafiction and intrahistory to Miró's depiction of a miscarriage of justice in the Spanish legal system and the imprisonment of two innocent men in El crimen de Cuenca. Chapter 9 outlines a special instance of intertextuality in Miró's employment of stars. Using recent work in star studies, I consider the contributions and implications of her choice of two actresses - Ana Belén and Patsy Kensit - to La petición and Beltenebros. The conclusion suggests that, while Miró demonstrates an active interest in and sympathy for the victims of oppression, her use of intertextuality may be unconscious and that this thesis presents just one possible argument or interpretation. An interview with Miró in 1995 is included in an Appendix, as are relevant stills of Ana Belén.
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Katona, Leah Andrea. "The Use of Violence as Feminist Rhetoric: Third-Wave Feminism in Tarantino's Kill Bill Films." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2759.
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For the purpose of this thesis, the main focus of the feminist rhetorical criticism method was specifically linked to gender-related power inequities. This method was especially appropriate for the analysis of how film violence is used as a feminist rhetorical strategy in the Kill Bill films. This thesis is more closely aligned with challenging rhetorical standards as it sought to identify feminist counter positions of rhetoric in film violence.
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Geloğullari, Gülin. "Female Friendship Films: A Post-Feminist Examination of Representations of Women in the Fashion Industry." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc848090/.
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This thesis focuses on three fashion industry themed female friendship films: Pret-a-Porter/Ready to Wear (1994) by Robert Altman, The Devil Wears Prada (2006) by David Frankel, and The September Issue (2009) by R.J. Cutler. Female interpersonal relationships are complex – women often work to motivate, encourage and transform one another but can just as easily use tactics like intimidation, manipulation, and exploitation in order to save their own jobs and reputations. Through the lens of post-feminist theory, this thesis examines significant female interpersonal relationships in each film to illustrate how femininity is constructed and driven by consumer culture in the fashion industry themed films.
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Anticoli, Rahel. "Cultural Adaptation of Cancer Campaign Films : A comparison made between beauty commercials; United States ofAmerica and India." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Bildproduktion, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27472.
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Uppsatsens syfte är att göra en filmanalys av kampanjfilmer om bröstcancer som var skapade av kosmetiska företag i Indien och U.S.A. I uppsatsen undersöks hur semiotiska resurser var påverkade av kulturen och hur kampanjerna har använt kulturell adaption i marknadsföringssyfte. Jag beskriver en denotation av två filmer från varje land följd utav en konnotation som stödjs av artiklar och böcker om respektive kultur. Avslutningsvis tar jag upp och diskuterar de olika teorierna om hur kulturell adaption kan påverka en människa ur ett marknadsföringsperspektiv. Slutsatsen är att nationalism och appropriation är några av de viktiga elementen i kulturell adaption som förstärker marknadsföring. Dessa element skapar självidentitet och förtrogenhet hos individen som tittar på filmen. Några semiotiska resurser som hade förändrats i kulturell adaption och som hälpte till att skapa de elementen var etnicitet, gester, kläder, miljö, och symboler.
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Kramer, Heidi Tilney. "Monsters Under the Bed: An Analysis of Torture Scenes in Three Pixar Films." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4525.
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With background information on militarism, nationalism, and torture, this study analyzes Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 3, and The Incredibles, three Pixar films released from 2001 through 2010, for the ways in which the torture scenes are framed. These frames, state control, prisons, and 60s spy thrillers, invite laughter through intertextuality, while deflecting attention from torture of central characters in the films. The implications of this analysis are: these films present torture as deserved and normative; the tortured characters stand outside the frames of recognition for humanness; and they redefine children as threats and dangers. This study concludes that these ideologies are just as potent as the themes of nationalism, militarism, and a violated sacrosanct homeland.
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Sun, Xueling. "Wandering Women in Cinema, from Julie to Star: Female Subjectivity and Female Spectatorship in Feminine Road Films." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1545.
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This paper serves to explore how female subjects are represented in films featuring a woman on the road in ways that can create a female gaze, as an alternative to the male gaze. It looks for answers in four films from the 1970s to 2016, all made by female filmmakers, which are Je, Tu, Il, Elle (1974), Vagabond (Sans Toit Ni Loi) (1978), Wendy and Lucy (2008) and American Honey (2016). All four films share approaches that reject objectification in the depiction of females, but each is distinctive in their filmi strategies. Focusing on each work individually while attempting to make comparisons with others, this paper also aims to connect the shift of strategies in these works to the related discussion in feminist film theories.
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Sinner, Megan. "FEMINISM IN THE FILMS OF NEW GERMAN COMEDY." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1146072869.
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Budirska, Alzbeta. ""This Is a Forced Feminist Agenda" : IMDb users and their understanding of feminism negotiated in the reviews of superheroine films." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104302.
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The thesis examines how users of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) negotiate feminism in their reviews of four superheroine films – Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Birds of Prey: The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, and Wonder Woman 1984. By combining critical discourse analysis with methods of corpus linguists, this corpus-based study of over 18,000 reviews analyses the frequency of the topic of feminism in the reviews, words and topics associated with it and the way the reviewers reflect broader mediated discourse over the four films, and the role of IMDb as a space for these reviews. The findings show that feminism is still understood as an anti-male movement where female-led films are shielded from criticism by the mainstream media by the virtue of the lead’s gender, the superheroines are criticised for being overpowered particularly where they have no equal male supporting character and that perceived feminist messaging is usually written off as a forced political agenda or as an insincere cash grab made by corporates which effectively use feminism for promotion. It also reveals IMDb as a highly polarised platform where the users leaving 1- and 10-star reviews are generalized as representatives of different sides of the political spectrum (antifeminist vs feminist, conservative vs liberal) regardless of the actual content of the review.
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Reid, David. "'Just looking' : gazing at the male gaze; the representation of women in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and in the photography of Jeff Wall and Thomas Struth." Thesis, University of Derby, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322598.
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Cherry, Brigid S. G. "The female horror film audience : viewing pleasures and fan practices." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2268.
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What is at stake for female fans and followers of horror cinema? This study explores the pleasures in horror film viewing for female members of the audience. The findings presented here confirm that female viewers of horror do not refuse to look but actively enjoy horror films and read such films in feminine ways. Part 1 of this thesis suggests that questions about the female viewer and her consumption of the horror film cannot be answered solely by a consideration of the text-reader relationship or by theoretical models of spectatorship and identification. A profile of female horror film fans and followers can therefore be developed only through an audience study. Part 2 presents a profile of female horror fans and followers. The participants in the study were largely drawn from the memberships of horror fan groups and from the readerships of a cross-section of professional and fan horror magazines. Qualitative data were collected through focus groups, interviews, open-ended questions included in the questionnaire and through the communication of opinions and experiences in letters and other written material. Part 3 sheds light on the modes of interpretation and attempts to position the female viewers as active consumers of horror films. This study concludes with a model of the female horror film viewer which points towards areas of female horror film spectatorship which require further analysis. The value of investigating the invisible experiences of women with popular culture is demonstrated by the very large proportion of respondents who expressed their delight and thanks in having an opportunity to speak about their experiences. This study of female horror film viewers allows the voice of an otherwise marginalised and invisible audience to be heard, their experiences recorded, the possibilities for resistance explored, and the potentially feminine pleasures of the horror film identified.
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Rubaba, Protas Pius. "The influence of feminist communication in creating social transformation : an analysis of the films Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène) and Water (Deepa Mehta)." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/888.
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In many societies in developing countries, women are not given a chance to communicate their issues. The organisation within these societies places men at the top, giving them the opportunity to make all the important decisions. This situation is reflected in the two films which fall under this study, namely, Water and Moolaadé both of which are fictional representations of the oppression of women. In this study, an attempt is made to explain communication struggles in the two films: Water, reflecting Indian society and Moolaadé, reflecting African society. To understand the outcome of these struggles against patriarchy, the study looks at two types of feminism: Indian feminism and African feminism and attempts to find the sense that characters in the film can be understood. The analysis also looks at what the women, who act as feminists in the films have achieved out of their struggles to break the silence and how their voices have influenced or sensitised the silenced majority of women in their societies. Feminist communication theories have been used to analyse the female voice in the films. In the conclusion, I have argued that in both films women have managed to transform their respective societies. However more potential to social transformation are revealed by women depicted in Moolaadé than in Water, where there is very slow pace of change.
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Goulden, Jan. "The western, the buddy movie and noir : lesbian re-readings of the American action movie." n.p, 1999. http://library7.open.ac.uk/abstracts/page.php?thesisid=13.
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Su, Xin. "Ideas of film authorship : a study of theories and concepts of agency and subjectivity in film authorship, with a conclusion on the possible configuration of a future theoretical model of feminist film authorship." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1101.
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Santiago, Maillim. "Little women: study of female representations in teen films and how those representations have affected gender perceptions." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/908.
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Although teen film is littered with tales of young women coming of age, the messages presented in most of these films follow a formula centered on a patriarchal nuclear family ideal, which leads to damaging perceptions regarding gender roles in teenage society. There is the main traditional model of stay at home mother with a father in the role of the breadwinner; the rise of rape culture; and the glass ceiling in the workplace. The young females consuming a mass amount of this media then reflect negatively on themselves. The research following this conundrum was broken into two parts: the production of a film looking to remedy the many problems of female representation in teen media and then monitoring the reaction to said film against its target audience: young females between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one. The purpose of this thesis is to explore what makes females within the teenage demographic react to certain kinds of media. If they react negatively or positively towards a media representation of themselves, to what extent does this affect the participants' activity in their daily lives? Therefore, through a process of screening three short films focused on teen issues - including the one made by myself for this study - and then conducting a survey focusing on questions regarding the participants' feelings towards the subject matter, their hopes for themselves, and teen media in general, there was an ability to gauge how deeply teen media affects the modern teenager.<br>B.F.A.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Film
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Mancini, Tanna Alice. "When Bad Things Happen to Good Mothers: Rethinking Motherhood Through the Single Mother Image in American Films from the 1930s to the 1970s." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4142.
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The single-mother figure shows up in myriad American film genres, and my thesis explores three of these genres, maternal melodrama, film noir, and horror. I argue there is a melodramatic mode that carries over from maternal melodrama to film noir and horror. This mode emphasizes emotional excess. In maternal melodrama, the emotional excess is pity. For film noir, the emotion is anxiety, and in horror, it is repulsion. Even though each genre has its own emotional excess, maternal melodrama still speaks to these other genres through its maternal sacrifice, non-heteronormative families and misreading of proper gender performances. For this reason, I intentionally begin with classic maternal melodrama, wherein conventional gender roles, heteronormative familial structures, and mother-daughter separation are standard features. In Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937), Stella misreads what "proper" femininity looks like. As a result, she believes she is "bad" for her daughter, Laurel, and makes the heart-wrenching decision to sacrifice Laurel to a traditional nuclear family.
The other films I chose extend Stella Dallas' interest in gender roles, kinship structures, and mother-daughter separation but also subtly change the maternal melodrama's relationship to heart-wrenching sacrifice. In each of three chapters, I explore Michael Curtiz's film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), Douglas Sirk's melodrama Imitation of Life (1959) and William Friedkin's horror film The Exorcist (1973). After examining the standard features of maternal melodrama in Stella Dallas, I begin to explore them in other genres that focus on one of the three ideas more predominantly. These ideas are gender roles, kinship structures, mother-daughter separation. This does not mean that each film is limited to only one idea. All of the films address gender performance, familial structure, and mother-child separation, but I let each film take the lead on one of the three ideas. In Mildred Pierce, I explore gender performance. Mildred performs masculinity and femininity depending on whether she is in the public or private sphere. Imitation of Life takes the lead on alternative kinship. The film illustrates how two single mothers create a economically viable non-heteronormative interracial family. I conclude with The Exorcist and the possibility that the mother and child do not need to separate like Stella and Laurel. The Exorcist challenges what has long been considered a necessary process. This is the only film that successfully keeps mother and child united.
I believe this project draws attention to the lack of analysis of single mothers in American film, but more importantly, it makes us rethink motherhood. The single mother privileges a certain approach to gender performance, familial structure, and mother-child separation that feminist theory and film studies have overlooked. This approach includes a masculine gender performance to perform as a father, disrupting the heteronormative familial structure to make it work for them, and mothers maintaining a relationship with their adolescent daughters.
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Silas, Elizabeth J. "THEMES OF AWAKENING IN MAINSTREAM FILMS: FEMALE SUBJECTS AND THE LACANIAN SYMBOLIC." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1133495057.
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Thesis (Master of Arts)--Miami University, Dept. of Mass Communication, 2005.<br>Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], iv, 63 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-63).
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Edström, Josefine. "The Feminized People and the Patriarchal State: Studying the Portrayal of Gender in North Korean Films." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-338720.
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Kapler, Desiree Dawn. "below the neck, above the knees." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4831.
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My thesis explores the act of violation in the context of trauma and healing through the use of personal narratives and experimental film. My research allows personal storytelling to transform into a larger and more universal theme of generational trauma and dysfunction. Through a feminist lens, I challenge social norms of body autonomy for the sick and abused, capitalism’s social effects on the poor, and passed down maternal lessons from the women who are doing the best that they can with the lives and opportunities that they have been given.
This work is created in spite of the labels my mother, the women before her, and I may hold. It is an act of resistance to who and what is allowed to be seen or heard. It is my confession, but it is not my confession alone.
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Van, Niekerk Tanya. "'N Feministiese analise van animasiekarakters vanuit 'n feministiese benadering." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10122004-135247.
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Weber-Fève, Stacey A. "There's no place like home homemaking, making home, and femininity in contemporary women's filmmaking and the literature of the Métropol and the Maghreb /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1148746370.
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Suner, Feride Asuman. "Male border crossing films: A feminist/postcolonial analysis." 1996. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9639034.
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This study is an analysis of a group of contemporary Western European and North American films, which are described as male border-crossing films and focus on a state of existential crisis experienced by their male protagonists. The study includes the analysis of Wim Wenders' Kings of the Road (1976); Michelangelo Antonionni's The Passenger (1975); Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Despair (1977) and his episode in Germany in Autumn (1978); and David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988) and M. Butterfly (1993). The study aims to develop a critical reading strategy informed by postcolonial and feminist discourses, and to read male border-crossing films on the basis of their cultural politics, rather than their aesthetic and "authorial" characteristics. The study engages in a theoretical exploration of postmodernist, postcolonial and feminist discourses in relation to their critique of the sovereign position occupied by the Western, white, male subject in the Western modernist/imperialist project. The distinction between the situations of a "tourist" and a "refugee" is applied as a metaphor to make sense of the disparate articulations of the notion of "border-crossing" in postmodernist discourse, and postcolonial and feminist discourses. It is argued that the notion of "border-crossing" which appears in male border-crossing films is most consistent with a postmodernist notion of "border-crossing." This study demonstrates that the cultural politics of male border-crossing films is ambivalent. In these films, the questioning of white, male authority can easily turn into its reaffirmation. Western, white, male identity can be restored at the moment when it is supposedly destroyed; or what appears to be border-crossing can as well be seen as border control.
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Collins, Felicity. "Ties that bind: the psyche of feminist filmmaking : Sydney, 1969-1989." 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/974.
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University of Technology, Sydney.<br>The purpose of my research for this thesis has been to investigate the psychic and emotional history of the milieu of independent, feminist filmmaking that began to form within the Women's Liberation Movement in Sydney in 1969. My interest in the psyche of the milieu has been twofold: to explore the possibility of writing an interior or subjective history, not of an individual but of a political milieu; and to grapple with the trajectory of the utopian, activist politics of the 1970s into the 1980s. I began my research by reading over five hundred funding applications from the files of the Women's Film Fund - an extensive archival record of the interaction between the funding femocracy and aspiring filmmakers. The building blocks of the thesis derived from interviews with founding members of the Sydney Women's Film Group (SWFG) and the Feminist Film Workers (FFW), and with former managers and Advisory Panel members of the Women's Film Fund. I consulted the SWFG and FFW records held (uncatalogued) by the National Film and Sound Archive, and I was given access to papers from the personal files of some of the filmmakers. I also viewed the body of films associated with the women's collections at the former Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative and the Women's Film Fund. From 1969-89 there were three major reconfigurations in the psyche of the milieu. The 1960s liberationist ethos - characterised by energy, excitement and eros - was transformed into an ethic of duty, discipline and sacrifice in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, feminist activism reached a limit point which turned the milieu's attention to the psychic foundations of its own origins and to the question of what had been sacrificed in the formation of the feminist activist. This question haunts the films of the 1980s through the insistent figure of the maternal. The ties that bound this milieu to a luminous vision of the future had their origins in a deeply shadowed image of the immediate past. This psychic reality is a point of origin and return as the milieu continues to remake itself through the cinema, into the 1990s.
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Ward, Jenifer Kay. "The films of Margarethe von Trotta and their reviews a feminist critical analysis /." 1992. http://books.google.com/books?id=UHpZAAAAMAAJ.
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"The gendered vampires in contemporary culture: a lesbian feminist reading." 1999. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889884.
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Ina Yee.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-90).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Acknowledgements --- p.i<br>Table of Contents --- p.ii<br>Abstract --- p.iii<br>Introduction --- p.1<br>The Gendered Vampires in Contemporary Culture<br>Vampires and Contemporary Culture --- p.1<br>Woman/Lesbian as Vampire --- p.7<br>"Ortner and ""the Angel in the House""" --- p.9<br>"Mulvey, Postfeminist Media Critics and the Female Body" --- p.10<br>Butler and the Lesbian Phallus --- p.12<br>Feminism and Postfeminisms --- p.14<br>Chapter Chapter One --- The Woman Vampire: The Fallen Angel --- p.18<br>Woman and Nature --- p.18<br>The Angel and the Woman Vampire --- p.23<br>The Postmodern Dracula --- p.33<br>Conclusion --- p.39<br>Chapter Chapter Two --- The Girl Vampire: The Resistant Female Body --- p.40<br>The Male Gaze --- p.40<br>"""When the Woman Looks"" at a Woman" --- p.47<br>The Postmodern Female Body --- p.56<br>Conclusion --- p.58<br>Chapter Chapter Three --- The Lesbian Vampire: The Female Desire --- p.60<br>The Lacanian Phallus --- p.60<br>The Lesbian Phallus --- p.64<br>The Lesbian Vampire --- p.67<br>The Dark Kiss and Female Sexual Pleasures --- p.70<br>Conclusion --- p.78<br>Conclusion --- p.81<br>Towards an Autonomous Representation of Womanhood<br>Bibliography --- p.87
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Davis, Stefanie Leigh. ""Seduced and Abandoned Over and Over and Over": A Feminist Semiotic Narrative Analysis of the Films of James Toback." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/18387.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>In this thesis, feminist semiotic narrative methodology is applied to James Toback’s films Love & Money, Exposed, Tyson, and Seduced and Abandoned, in order to illuminate his construction of womanhood and women’s sexuality. In each film, Toback served as writer, director, and producer, giving him total creative and business control. Due to this lack of outside oversight, these four specific films are most likely to directly reflect Toback’s perspective as a filmmaker. This study employs narrative-based semiotic criticism, expanding the work of Walter Fisher and Teresa de Lauretis, to identify how Toback’s creation of world, gaze, object/subject, and desire, construct womanhood and women’s sexuality. Toback’s creation of illusory worlds emphasizes that while superficial beauty qualifies a woman as a sexual commodity for men, sex will ultimately be women’s downfall.
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Wentzel, Gareth Peter. "The archetypes of "bogeyman" and "final girl" within the slasher horror sub-genre: an enquiry into socio-cultural values." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23887.
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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
Master in Arts
In the Department of Film and Television
Faculty of Humanities
University of the Witwatersrand
March 2017<br>Drawing on Carol Clover’s theory of the male antagonist or "Bogeyman" and the female protagonist or
"Final Girl" that define the American Slasher Horror sub-genre, I analyzed two original Slasher films,
namely Halloween (Carpenter 1978) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven 1984). I later outlined the
evolution of these conventions within the Slasher sub-genre, using the remakes of both films respectively.
I then endeavoured to explain the subversion of these conventions in France with the New French
Extremity Movement, and analyse how these filmmakers successfully transposed a typical American subgenre
to France. Finally, using New French Extremity, I attempted to subvert and transpose these
conventions to South Africa by writing, producing and directing a short Slasher film titled The Teddy
Bear Man.<br>MT2018
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Motsaathebe, Thatayaone Gilbert. "Presence as absence: A black feminist analysis of the depiction of black woman in three post-apartheid South African films (2004-2008)." Thesis, 2014.
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Using feminist film criticism and semiotic analysis, this dissertation evaluates how Black women are portrayed in post-apartheid films in South Africa. Three high-profile feature films, namely Yesterday (Roodt, 2004), Tsotsi (Hood, 2005), and Jerusalema (Ziman, 2008), produced during a five-year period between 2004 and 2008, were examined for their portrayal of Black female characters in terms of nuance and complexity. The study draws on cultural studies, Black feminism and Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to unravel the position of Black women in contemporary South Africa. It also explores the inequalities and power relations that characterised both the colonial and apartheid eras and the way various aspects of that hegemonic imperative have continued to be reproduced and re-envisioned in post-apartheid South Africa through various public discourses. The study focuses predominantly on the portrayal of four key Black female characters, namely Yesterday (in Yesterday), Lucky’s mother (in Jerusalema), Miriam (in Tsotsi) and Pumla (in Tsotsi). Gendered modes of portrayal identified include objectification, voyeurism, motherhood, domestication and single parenthood. It was found that some of the patterns that characterised the cinema of apartheid continue to persist in post-apartheid films. One of the major concerns with the reviewed films is their tendency to confine Black women to ‘the home’ through a naturalist frame which presents them as being naturally equipped to bear difficulties. For example, in the domains of domestic work and parenting they are portrayed as superwomen – self-sacrificing, loving, forgiving and always labouring for the good of others, in spite of the circumstances pitted against them. In the Gramscian sense, such depiction functions
to ensure that these women do not question the injustice of their position because they are constantly shown as being naturally equipped to deal with any kind of hardship. However, there are a few exceptions where a counter-narrative challenging the traditional representation was evinced, although this is only limited to character portrayal. Overall, the study found that the corpus of films examined struggles to render a nuanced and dynamic representation of Black women, especially with regard to the roles and statuses ascribed to them. The study concluded that the South African cinema during colonialism and apartheid established a multiform, racist and sexist narrative (to use Foucauldian terms), while the new wave of post-apartheid films struggles to provide an equally multiform, anti-racist and anti-sexist counter-narrative.
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Fulfs, Patricia Ann. "The horror of feminism : understanding the second wave through the reception of controversial films." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/8999.
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Given feminists’ longstanding concerns about the ideological effects of media images, and prompted by the lack of, but continued need for, feminist activism today, some feminist scholars have become increasingly interested in how popular media shape public understandings of feminism, represent its issues, and define its history. Communication scholars also appreciate that both media texts and social movements are produced and received within particular historical contexts, and that controversies over either are discursive sites in which cultural and political values clash and their meanings are negotiated. During the 1970s, second-wave feminism, especially its radical wing, was a controversial movement which threatened to disrupt basic relations between women and men and, therefore, has been much maligned by men, women, anti-feminists, and a new generation of self-proclaimed feminists. Yet, the second wave is often portrayed inaccurately. This dissertation thus reviews key works, theories, and events associated with radical feminism as well as the debates between it and other schools of feminist thought–liberal, Marxist/socialist, psychoanalytic, cultural, and various ‘new’ feminisms. Then, employing a context-sensitive form of ideological criticism, I examine three films, their promotional strategies, their mainstream critical and scholarly receptions, and how these elements converged with particular feminist discourses within their shared historical contexts. Specifically, I investigate why the horror films Rosemary’s Baby (1968), I Spit on Your Grave (1978), and Snuff (1976)–which each featured an exposed, vulnerable, violated, or ‘monstrous’ female body–became objects of controversy when they tapped into the contemporaneous feminist issues of reproduction, rape, and pornography, respectively, and how the films’ receptions reveal ways in which people have made sense of feminism and its issues. I contend that these controversies, both individually and when viewed as a series, were symptomatic of the hegemonic negotiations of second-wave feminism and its attempts to publicize discourses about sex, violence, and the female body, negotiations which were occurring both inside and outside the women’s movement. Through these controversial cases, then, we can see feminism’s transformation–from an active movement which criticized the structures of women’s oppression to a discursive and primarily academic enterprise focused more on criticizing itself.<br>text
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Mackie, Ardiss Emilie. "Popular film and English as a second language : toward a critical feminist pedagogy of identity and desire." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17015.
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My identity as a white woman ESL teacher has been structured partly through
movies I saw in my youth. More recently in the late 1990s, a film with ESL, The King
and I (1956), was on Japanese television two years in a row while I was teaching there.
I found that very interesting and began asking questions regarding the influences that
popular film may have on real ESL teachers and students. The study questions how
films contribute to ESL in terms of teacher and student identities and desires.
To explore this question, I collected three forms of data: 24 films with ESL;
post-secondary ESL teacher and student responses to watching two films with ESL; and
memories of films from my youth. A framework of critical and feminist pedagogy,
including work in identity and ESL, and postcolonial, cultural, and feminist studies
informed the analysis. I analyzed the data in relation to discourses of desire and the
body as a socially constructed site of racial and gender identification.
From the film data, I made the case that particular tropes, initiations, and signs
construct reel ESL, such as white female teachers as upholders of particular colonial
identities. From the teacher and student data, I found that readers engage with cinematic
meanings in a space of liminality, that is, not quite in the movie but not quite in
themselves. Readers by-pass their race, gender, age, and occupation to access the
cinematic body as politically engaged and disrupting the status quo. From the memory
data, I argued that through the seemingly innocent practice of watching movies, a world
of racialized and gendered desire was settling in and making itself comfortable.
The study is positioned in a critical feminist pedagogy of multiliteracies. Here,
diverse sites of meaning-making strengthen and disrupt the desires and identities of ESL.<br>Education, Faculty of<br>Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of<br>Graduate
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"「我(不)是電影作者」: 論許鞍華的女性電影作者倫理主體". 2012. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5549385.
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作為本論文的研究對象，許鞍華在電影界成就無容置疑。惟有關她的學術研究和著作，在數量上寥可所涉攝範圍亦未見全面；後現代語境對主體的抗拒下，許鞍華的電影作者(auteur)往在研究中遭忽略或迴避，抺殺她作為女性電影者的可能 。這反映出女性導演在主流電影建制和論述中長期被邊緣化的現象。本論文目標，是冀在填補「許鞍華研究」上的空白， 並推進女性電影作者之討論。<br>本論文借用晚期傅柯的倫理主體概念和生存美學作為思考工具，嘗試走出傳統電影作者論和女性電影作者論對主體乃座落於電影作品或觀影者中的的觀點， 運用新主體工具帶動思考的轉向， 在建立女性電影作品中，對女性主體規範、性道德及國族身份的真理遊戲予以問題化，進行反思、批判挑戰以至顛覆自我技術 （technologes of the self ）力圖塑造出一個歷史的、在地流動和停存活於構成狀態中倫理主體。在這個脈絡下，許鞍華電影作品中的延續性和差異，成為了她這倫理電影作者當下的、在地歷史和文化結構中， 於電影實踐這場域所進行修工夫，在宏大的權力和知識網絡中，轉化自我與我的主體關係，邁向傅柯式的自我實踐生存美學。<br>Being one of the most renowned and established film directors in Hong Kong, film critics and researchers often show ambivalence in recognizing Ann Hui as an Auteur, which is usually based on the lack a consistent body of themes, techniques and genres observed in Ann Hui’s work. To further complicate the recognition of Ann Hui as an Auteur, more specifically a female auteur, are the tensions between anti-essentialism and naïve humanism on one hand, and the advent of postmodernism’s critique against the Subject on the other. This study sets out to address the marginalization of Ann Hui as a female director in both the film industry and film studies, and seeks to provide theoretical tools for the constitution of agency of a female auteur from the perspective of the Foucauldian thoughts on ethical subjectivity and aesthetics of existence.<br>With a view of achieving a historical rather than ahistorical, a multiple rather than unified, and both as a constituted as well as constituting subject in light of Foucault’s ethical subjectivity, this study challenges the beliefs held by contemporary Auteur theory and feminist auteur theories that film authorship is only located within the repertoire of a film director as signature, or as the reading strategy of the audience. By drawing on the idea of ascesis (askēsis) - a work on oneself which aims at intensifying and transforming one’s relation to oneself - discussions are highlighted in how Ann Hui makes use of film productions as self-practices to reconstitute her own relation with film authorship. This study argues that Ann Hui problematizes the game of truth (jeux de verité) of the hegemonic Auteur that she has been subjugated to, and actively makes herself the subject of an alternative female authorship, with an emphasis on her own personal visions. Through analyzing how this evasive stance further drives Ann Hui's problematization in rethinking, criticizing, challenging or even subverting other games of truth, especially in her ongoing interrogations of the female subject, sexual subject and national identity through the technologies of the self, this study establishes the ways Ann Hui seeks to progress towards the “art of existence by transforming her relations with these rules of conduct, and making her life as a work of art that carries specific aesthetic values and meets distinctive stylistic criteria.<br>Detailed summary in vernacular field only.<br>Detailed summary in vernacular field only.<br>林婉雯.<br>Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 358-385).<br>Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.<br>Abstracts in Chinese and English.<br>Lin Wanwen.<br>Chapter 第一章 --- 緒論<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 研究動機：為什麼在乎女性電影作者？為什麼是許鞍華 --- p.1<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 研究背景：電影作者主體的問題化用及思考客體成形 --- p.11<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 研究方法及論文架構 --- p.36<br>Chapter 第二章 --- 晚期傅柯 「倫理主體 」的啟示<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 傅柯的主體觀：不是回歸，從來就是主體 --- p.47<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 主體和真理遊戲 ：「知識」、 「治理 」和「主體化過程」 --- p.54<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 自我技術和自我關懷：主體與生存美學 --- p.63<br>Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 --- p.77<br>Chapter 第三章 --- 許鞍華的女性電影作者倫理主體（一）：「我（不）是電影作者」 --- p.84<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 重拾遺落的碎片：電影作者論在香港構成條件 --- p.85<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 「電影作者 」的真理 遊戲 ：許鞍華電影作者身份論述 --- p.118<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 集體創作中的自主創造： 《得閒炒飯》的實地觀察 --- p.140<br>Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 --- p.166<br>Chapter 第四章 --- 許鞍華的女性電影作者倫理主體（二）：電影實踐作為自我技術的工夫場域 --- p.170<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 「我她是誰？」：女性主體的真理遊戲 --- p.175<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 馴服與抵抗：性道德規範的真理遊戲 --- p.250<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 何處是吾家：民族和家國的真理遊戲 --- p.281<br>Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 --- p.328<br>Chapter 第五章 --- 結論<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 「屈從」下的不服從：許鞍華女性作者倫理主體 --- p.335<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 研究特色與貢獻 --- p.340<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 前瞻：未完成的方案和可持續發展 --- p.349<br>附錄 --- p.351<br>參考文獻 --- p.358