WorksheetsFeminist Approaches to Film
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 6mins
"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’
