WSTC12H3 Lecture Notes - Patriarchy, Fatema Mernissi, The Second Sex
4 Jul 2013
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What does the shadow of her grandmother show in the film-shows the visualization of her imagination. In the film, that in society in general, in hollywood movies women bodies are meant to look at. In many hollywood movies, like transformers, the women are there are just to be looked at. The male viewer wants to reduce the female to only her body. The male gaze-doesn"t need to be projected by the male character. Cinema and film are so persuasive, that female bodies that are projected affects the whole society. In the film marji looks more feminized, compared to the book. In the film, marji looks at the tv to this cindrella story, meaning she wants to escape her concrete life, and live the fantasy life of cindrella. In narrative cinema, women bodies become fragmented, means that they show part of woman"s bodies for the male gaze, the one they want to see it.
