FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Subplot, J. K. Rowling, Kristina Wong
15 Apr 2016
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Her thesis: how is popular music used as a tool to inform, maintain, and construct discourse of normative behaviour. Important components: hegemonic femininity (beauty industrial complex), heteronormativity and the body (ableism, critical fat studies) A song and its lyrics are individually relatable, songs are personal property that has a concrete place with people because of its durability and its complexity. There is some validity that fall under popular music because of their catchy music: questions: Viewers were encouraged to identify with the hero of the film which tends to be male, and female characters tend to be passive, gazed at tended to be looked at (she sees this particular pattern in hollywood films) Gazes: gaze of the camera: fundamentally boyaristic and controlled by men (she uses a psychoanalytical theory here) Gaze of the male characters: who watch female characters as fetishized objects. Gaze of the spectator: is forced to identify with the two above gazes.
