Feminist Approaches to Film

"The personal is political" is a slogan associated with...

• First wave feminism

• Second wave feminism

• Third wave feminism

• Postfeminism

"A belief that things have a set of characteristics which make them what they are" is the definition of...

• Relativism

• Essentialism

• Ontology

• Constructivism

"Considers questions of identity/power by thinking about the way different social categorisations combine..." refers to...

• The male gaze

• Identity politics

• Intersectionality

• Feminist film theory

Which of the following statements about feminist film theory are CORRECT?

• Core beliefs about art similar to Marxism

• Often influenced by psychoanalysis

• It can be used to analyse all genres of films

• It does not analyse film made by men

What is the title of your required reading for today, an essay by Laura Mulvey?

• The Male Gaze

• The Pleasure of The Male Gaze

• Patriarchal Narratives in Hollywood Cinema

• Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

One of the following statements about Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze is NOT accurate... which one?

• The camera replicates the look of male characters

• Men feel powerful by contrasting themselves to powerless women

• Viewers tend to identify with female characters

• In Hollywood films women are often ‘silent’ and cannot ‘make meaning’