EPISODE · Feb 28, 2021 · 33 MIN
Female Gaze and Female Representation in the Film Industry (1/2)
from Capitana Fantastic · host Capitana Fantastic
This podcast segment intends to expose a new point of view from which the viewer can interact with the films. What is the female gaze and where does this term come from? The 1975's Mulvey’s definition of male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world in the visual arts from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer. Together with our guest Lysiane Colin, a now graduated master student in gender and cinema who studied gender representation in US Tv and the female gaze, we'll illustrate the gaze and present different definitions of what can the female gaze be to different critics. In the first part we'll exemplify the female gaze and female representation through the comparison between The Hunger Games and The Handmaid's tale. The question with The Hunger Games is : how is women/femininity represented and how it rejects some norms whilst also re-enforcing others? And The Handmaid's Tale on the other hand? It has a clear rejection of the male gaze, how do they denounce objectification in this series? What is the future of female representation? What can the gaze do? Who is gazed upon? Who does the gazing?
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This podcast segment intends to expose a new point of view from which the viewer can interact with the films. What is the female gaze and where does this term come from? The 1975's Mulvey’s definition of male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world in the visual arts from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer. Together with our guest Lysiane Colin, a now graduated master student in gender and cinema who studied gender representation in US Tv and the female gaze, we'll illustrate the gaze and present different definitions of what can the female gaze be to different critics. In the first part we'll exemplify the female gaze and female representation through the comparison between The Hunger Games and The Handmaid's tale. The question with The Hunger Games is : how is women/femininity represented and how it rejects some norms whilst also re-enforcing others? And The Handmaid's Tale on the other hand? It has a clear rejection of the male gaze, how do they denounce objectification in this series? What is the future of female representation? What can the gaze do? Who is gazed upon? Who does the gazing?
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