{"id":1356,"date":"2021-11-30T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2021-11-30T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:08:25","slug":"gaze-chloe-fandetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/30\/gaze-chloe-fandetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaze \u2013 Chloe Fandetti"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the media, women are regularly objectified and sexualized for the satisfying gaze of white, hetereosexual men. One example that comes to mind is the difference between the character Rita Vratowski in the novel <\/span>All You Need is Kill <\/span><\/i>and the blockbuster film <\/span>The Edge of Tomorrow<\/span><\/i>. In the novel, Rita is described as a petite, mousy, red-headed 19-22 year old woman. The actress that plays Rita in the film, Emily Blunt, does not share many physical characteristics with the Rita from the novel; Emily Blunt is tall, blonde, conventionally attractive, and much older than 22. In the film, Emily Blunt is the heroine perceived through the lense of the male gaze, whether that be the director, Doug Liman, the protagonist, Tom Cruise, or the intended audience. With popular cinema, it\u2019s usually men who write the films, men who make the films, and men who are the target audience. In the novel, Rita\u2019s appearance is important to her character and the plot as she is often underestimated due to her size. Conventional attractiveness adheres to the male fantasy, so the casting of Emily Blunt fulfills the male gaze while subtracting a part of Rita\u2019s integrity as a character. The male gaze reaffirms the power of the patriarchy by using women as props in the heterosexual male narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the media, women are regularly objectified and sexualized for the satisfying gaze of white, hetereosexual men. One example that comes to mind is the difference between the character Rita Vratowski in the novel All You Need is Kill and the blockbuster film The Edge of Tomorrow. In the novel, Rita is described as a petite, mousy, red-headed 19-22 year… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaze"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}