Friday, October 27, 2006
Task Ten: Book Research
- Gilligan, Sarah (2003): Teaching Women and Film. UK: BFi
Focuses on the category “woman” and what it actually means as a construct and a reality. Also helps to understand about women gaining control - Davis, Glyn and Dickenson, Kay (2004): Teen TV – Genre, Consumption, Identity. UK: BFi
Talks about how race and gender affect friendships within girls. This will be of help to me as Pretty Persuasion is about friendship and has a lot to do with race as there is an Asian, Muslim girl. - Cook, Pam and Benink, Mieke (1999): The Cinema Book 2nd Edition. UK: BFi
Information on Laura Mulvey and the male gaze, Sigmund Freud’s fetishism and male sexual anxiety, psychoanalysis, females in film, the female spectator and queer theory. - Tasker, Yvonne (1998): Working Girls. UK: Routledge
Again, this is looking at female friendships but in the melodrama genre. This leads on to lesbian chic which is homosexual relationships within girls. Also looks at how class, ethnicity and race affect female friendships - Nelmes, Jill (1996): Introduction to Film Studies. UK: Routledge
This information is about women and film and the history of women in film. Looks at the feminist revolution and the representation and stereotyping of women in the media. Also concentrates on gender theory and looking at masculinity and womb envy. - Smelik, Anneke (1998): And the mirror cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory. UK: Palgrave Macmillan
Information on the male gaze, the female spectator, female desire and lesbian film studies. - Gauntlett, David (2002): Media Gender and Identity, An Introduction. UK: Routledge
This book looks at Gender representation in the past, Gender representation in the present, Laura Mulvey and the male gaze, Masculinity and Femininity, Girl power, queer theory - Bennet, Peter and Slater, Jerry and Wall, Peter (2006): A2 Media Studies The Essential Introduction. UK: Routledge
Quite broad information about the media but particularly looking at representation, mediation, stereotypes, minorities, realism and ideologies - Penly, Constance (1988): Feminism and Film Theory. UK: BFi
This book is an in depth look at the place of women in film and how society has changed to allow them to be more known and seen in the media. A lot of feminist theorists give their view on what they think. - Wayne, Mike (2005): Understanding Film Marxist Perspectives. UK: Pluto Press
Marxism in film and how it affects the film. Extracts from Adorno, Gramsci and Althusser. Also looks at Hollywood as Monopoly Capitalism. - Branston, Gill and Stafford, Roy (2003): The Media Student’s Book 3rd Edition. UK: Routledge
Looks at representation within gender, questioning positive and negative images and ideas of changing representation. Also looks at how stereotypes are formed.
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