Women In Movies Concepts

Front 1

Female Gaze

Back 1

1. Woman possess the gaze.

2. Control of their sexuality.

3. Bodies emphasize maternal functions.

Front 2

Male Gaze

Back 2

1. Camera is male eye.

2. Male desire is in control.

3. Female body is objectified.

Front 3

Phallic Woman

Back 3

1. Phallic symbol.

2. Possess male characteristics.

3. Threatens male power.

Front 4

Intersectionality

Back 4

1. Personal identity

2. The understanding of society

3. A tool for justice

Front 5

Kyriarchy

Back 5

1. The oppressed is theoppressor

Front 6

Privilage

Back 6

1. Unearned advantage.

2. Everyone has some form of it.

Front 7

Fast Talking Dame & The Hays Code

Back 7

1. Intelligent

2. Pretty & Sexy

3. Fast-talkers

4. In control of sexuality

5. Physically agile

Front 8

Action Heroine Type:

Mother

Back 8

To protect a child

Front 9

Action Heroine Type:

Tomboy

Back 9

1. Masculine

2. Butch

Front 10

Action Heroine Type:

Feisty Heroine

Back 10

1. Love interest of the hero

2. Not overly sexualized

Front 11

Action Heroine Type:

Porn Fantasy

Back 11

1. Over sexualized

2. Male fantasy

Front 12

Outlaw/Gun in the Handbag Genre

Back 12

1. Functions in an empty landscape.

2. Lesbian connotations.

3. Shift from domestic sphere to outlaw through social transgressions.

Front 13

The Final Girl

Back 13

1. Masculine Qualities (athletic build, sometimes in name)

2. Virginal / Unavailable Intelligent / Resourceful 3. Often first to grasp the severity of the situation

4. Actively defends herself, often killing or injuring the Killer

5. Even though she fights back, she is often saved by a male in the end

Front 14

Terrible Place

Back 14

”most often a house or tunnel, in which the victims sooner or later find themselves is a venerable element of horror." Location is often dark, damp, exit-less, maze-like, filled with ducts and plumbing for possible escape routes

Front 15

Victims

Back 15

Other filmmakers figured out that the only thing better than one beautiful woman being gruesomely murdered was a whole series of beautiful women being gruesomely murdered.”

Front 16

Male Killer

Back 16

"propelled by psychosexual fury, more particularly a male in gender distress"...They are emphatic misfits and emphatic outsiders” (Clover).

Front 17

Female Killer

Back 17

"they show no gender confusion. Nor is their motive overtly psychosexual; their anger derives in most cases not from childhood experience but from specific moments in their adult lives in which they have been abandoned or cheated on by men” (Clover).

Front 18

Weapons

Back 18

“extensions of the body that bring attacker and attacked into primitive, animalistic embrace” (Clover).

Front 19

The Femme Fatale

Back 19

1.Sexual, Independent, & Manipulative

2. Destructive Violence (sometimes murder)

3. Defiant against traditional family & gender roles (Marriage= loveless, confining, sexless, dull) 4. Uses sex for pleasure & a weapon or tool to control men

5. Must be Destroyed & punished! Or converted to “good woman”

6. Power/presence extends beyond death

Front 20

The Disney Heroine

Back 20

1. Rescued by a male (still can’t save herself in the end).

2. sexualized body

3. Feminine happiness & success = Boyfriend/husband

4. Social Class: Nobility

5. Lack of Voice or Agency (Disney’s Dolls)

Front 21

Foodways

Back 21

Thecultural, social, & economic practices relating to the production &consumption of Food. Foodways oftenrefers to the intersection of food in culture, traditions, and history