{"id":627,"date":"2021-09-09T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=627"},"modified":"2021-09-09T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:08:12","slug":"feminism-keyword-response-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/09\/feminism-keyword-response-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminism Keyword Response – Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing that struck me the most from this keyword reading was the concept of the male gaze particularly in the medium of film. The male gaze specifically in movies is something that I have done some research on. I will include links below to the videos I reference. The male gaze is defined as existing when a film forces the audience to see watch the film through the eyes of a heterosexual man.\u00a0 While the male gaze is more well known and better defined, such as through it\u2019s objectification of women, it begs the question of if a female gaze can exist. And if so what are its defining features? One important factor in the \u201cgaze\u201d of a film seems to be the people involved in the film’s production. As the text said having a male director, cameraman and co stars helps to aid this creation of the male gaze. Therefore, I think some examples of the female gaze would be movies made for and by women. For example Greta Gerwig\u2019s adaptation of Little Women (2019) or Emerald Fennell’s film Promising Young Women (2020). In an interview about the film Emerald Fennell discussed wanting to make a female revenge thriller that actually reflected how a real woman would go about getting revenge. This I think points to her film being of the female gaze, although that term is still ill-defined. Another interesting way to view the difference between the male and female gazes is by looking at the difference between Sucide Squad and Birds of Prey which both feature the character Harley Quinn, but are affected by the male gaze much differently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unpacking the Male Gaze: Birds of Prey vs. Suicide Squad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Harley Quinn\u2019s Costume in Birds of Prey\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Thread on Harley Quinn and Male Gaze<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing that struck me the most from this keyword reading was the concept of the male gaze particularly in the medium of film. The male gaze specifically in movies is something that I have done some research on. I will include links below to the videos I reference. The male gaze is defined as existing when a film forces… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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\/5398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}