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General Feminism
- To challenge sexism in a society that's still patriarchal
- Sexism = anything contributes to the subordination or exploitation of women
- Patriarchal (patriarchy) = male-dominated society
- matriarchy = female-dominated
- Sexual Politics
- Kate Millett (1969)
- 2nd Women's Movement (1960-)
- Equal job opportunity
- Equal pay for equal work
- Equal opportunity
- Day care
- Rape & violence towards women
- Abortion
- Image of women in media
- Equal job opportunity
Feminist Film Criticism
- Sociological interpretation of "stereotypes"
- Direct reflection of society
- Expression of repressed desires
- Rediscovery of women directors
- Auteurism favored male directors
- Dorothy Arzner
- Dance, Girl, Dance
- Pornography
- Woman-as-Spectacle
- Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure & Narrative Cinema" (1975)
- Freudian psychology (psychoanalysis)
- Film viewing = voyeurism (in Freudian terms)
- Power relationships
Feminist Filmmaking
- Documentary
- Deal with feminist issues (outlined above)
- Didactic
- Some feminist docs. are autobiographical
- "Socialist Realism"
- Not advocating socialism/communism
- Fictional films with a message
- Women's cinema as counter cinema
- "Counter" to classical style
- New style to fit new content