My Blog Buddy from my class is Rishi!
Rishi’s Independent Study question is 'How and why have women’s roles in action films changed?' he will also be looking at Kill Bill as his chosen text.
His overall study is very similar to mine as we both will be looking at females in the action genre of movies.The main protagonist in his move is Uma Thurman whereas mine is Ziyi Zhang.The theorist that we will be looking at when writing up our study is Laura Mulvey and her proposal of the Male Gaze. In particular we will be analyzing the two modes that Mulvey distinguishes between, known as Voyeuristic and Fetishistic. Rishi’s film has a hybrid genre of Action/Drama/Thriller/Crime and mine is similar as it contains elements of Action/Drama/Adventure/Romance genre.In Rishi’s text, you see Uma Thurman (the bride) with hardly any make-up on at all therefore contradicting Mulvey’s theory, however in my text Ziyi Zhang (Mei) is very much objectified and has qualities of being ‘look-atness’Both our texts allow the audiences to view women in more active roles, as they take on enemies and handle hevay weapons.The main iconographic image is of the ‘sword’ ( or ‘daggers’) which portrays the film as being martial arts. Rishi's movie based in contemporary America, whereas mine is 859AD China.Fnally both texts explore the growing power of women.
1 Comments:
Hey, dinveer.
Will u be able to me by blog buddy as ur independent study topic links to my.
1. your blog links with mine for example you your mentions women being the protagonist in films rather than the steriotipical male links with my because Charlies angels full throttle, the angels are all female are the protagonist than the stereotypical male.
Also u mention female protagonists in action films and charlies angels is an action film and so links well.
In form me if u want to be by buddy, if u already ave 1 please tell me.
Heena xxx
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