FILM 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Appropriation, Claudia Llosa, Feminist Theory
5 Apr 2016
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), can jusify western militarism and imperialism, etc: contradicion: we shouldn"t need to specify women for human rights (as in, all humans). Default seems to be the typical white, straight, male. 2 sets of tensions between the universal and the paricular: the woman vicim is globally associated with human rights as feminist acivism, risk of being deterritorialized. Women"s cinema = world cinema: even if a ilm doesn"t have a feminist message, if it has to do with women, it will be studied with a feminist theory perspecive. Cynical view: women tend to represent the naion and its problems, one of the ways to gain internaional funding is to say, look! This ilm is about human rights! : idea of women as universal vicims. Director is claudia llosa: studied ilmmaking in peru, ny, & madrid, lives in barcelona, internaitonal auteur. Star is magaly solier: white says that solier is an icon of 21st century indigenous femininity).
