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Blerg Cultural Studies Essay
Nov. 14th, 2005 10:38 pmThe thing is due on Thursday. I'm doing well atm, considering I've already figured out what text's I'll be analysing, done some reading, thought of some examples and figured out a basic thesis statement.
It is this:
The relationship between feminism and spectatorship in our contemporary culture is one that is constantly in flux. All contemporary visual texts must negotiate a cultural space that is tense with ideas and theories about seeing and the way gender and power are constructed through visual representation. Even in films like 'The Chronicles of Riddick', which serve mainly to reinforce traditional ideas about gender, heterosexuality and beauty, we see evidence of feminism and its effect on the gaze. When these concepts are consciously applied, as in the jacket art of Tori Amos' 'StrangeLittleGirls', postmodern works are created that connect and speak to others of their kind, and seek to reclaim feminine representation and re-imagine femininity and power.
That's kind of rough, but that's going to be the basis of my argument. Cue discussions about the construction of women in CoR, along with the heterosexual gaze on Riddick himself, and then a discussion of the characters of Tori's album, the process of re-writing songs from a female perspective, but most of the analysis on the photography of the jacket - comparing it with Cindy Sherman and ideas about multiple selves, and such.
Seriously. My fannishness is going to be what gets me through university. My last cultural studies essay was on Tad Williams' Otherland, and I've done two essays in the past on HP fandom, fanfic and slash writing.
Any opinions on that blather?
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steel_illusions, or they're going to take Faelamor away from me.
It is this:
The relationship between feminism and spectatorship in our contemporary culture is one that is constantly in flux. All contemporary visual texts must negotiate a cultural space that is tense with ideas and theories about seeing and the way gender and power are constructed through visual representation. Even in films like 'The Chronicles of Riddick', which serve mainly to reinforce traditional ideas about gender, heterosexuality and beauty, we see evidence of feminism and its effect on the gaze. When these concepts are consciously applied, as in the jacket art of Tori Amos' 'StrangeLittleGirls', postmodern works are created that connect and speak to others of their kind, and seek to reclaim feminine representation and re-imagine femininity and power.
That's kind of rough, but that's going to be the basis of my argument. Cue discussions about the construction of women in CoR, along with the heterosexual gaze on Riddick himself, and then a discussion of the characters of Tori's album, the process of re-writing songs from a female perspective, but most of the analysis on the photography of the jacket - comparing it with Cindy Sherman and ideas about multiple selves, and such.
Seriously. My fannishness is going to be what gets me through university. My last cultural studies essay was on Tad Williams' Otherland, and I've done two essays in the past on HP fandom, fanfic and slash writing.
Any opinions on that blather?
Frak. I have to update
steel_illusions, or they're going to take Faelamor away from me.
