J 320 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Essentialism, Fetishism, Marlon Riggs
31 Jul 2018
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Using the oppositional gaze: resisting identification with films/characters by actively critiquing them: looking (or looking back) as a way to resist hegemonic ideologies, one of few positions available to black female spectators under white supremacy. Queer theory, queering: challenges idea of stable, constructed, binary identities, particularly with regards to gender and sexuality: challenges hegemony of heterosexuality as the norm (what if we saw it as different, strange?, queering: examining from a non-heteronormative perspective. Marlon riggs, 1986): movie we watched in class. Stereotyping (hall): "reducing people to a few, simple, essential characteristics"; classification of difference through binary oppositions & othering; reduces & essentializes difference; uses naturalization & intertextuality to fix meanings based on difference. Difference & otherness: difference as a way to make meaning; problem: Difference relies on binaries and power one side is always perceived as dominant or preferred; system of classi cation, us vs. them the other"; one (dominant) group is perceived as normal everyone else is othered.
