1)Many of the articles weve read discuss the idea of spectatorship either implicitly or explicitly. Why is identifying the assumed audience an important concept or thought in terms of cinematic theoretical thought?
From the texts youve read, come up with your own theory of Spectatorship who do we ASSUME is the audience today? In 3-5 paragraphs, discuss why defining the spectator is important in cinematic theory, and then, using 3 reference articles from class to cite from, come up with your own theory of spectatorship, meaning who do YOU assume is the dominant eye or audience right now. For an agile feminist critic, how do you find it most helpful to define the assumed spectator? Were you going on to develop your own treatise of feminist theory, what would be this baseline spectatorship you would want your readers to grapple with, assume, and WHY?
Remember that do not need to AGREE with the critics you cite (you can reject Mulvey for example, but do so demonstrating an understanding of her argument), or you can define a SPECIFIC spectatorship for a specific body of work (What is the negotiated stance of young female viewers watching Young Adult content on Netflix?). OR you can take the articles, think hard on who we assume audiences to be now, and ask how women are placed within that audience TODAY. Do we still assume a white patriarchal audience? Have our assumptions changed, and if so, how does that affect the female spectator?
2) Now, time to get on your soapbox. Perhaps building from this evolved contemporary theory of Spectatorship, begin to evolve your own theory of film feminism (or an angle of it) in 3-5 paragraphs. Given a new assumption of audience (or NOT perhaps your stance is that nothings changed), how are women on screen read NOW, or how is their societal place reflected now on film, or how are our contemporary gender dynamics depicted NOW? Again, very free form and up to you to define.
Put yourself out there. Dig deep for an articulation of what your own thoughts are how are women depicted on screen now, and does that support or subvert the theories that have come before? Use 2-3 reference articles/chapters that youve read for class to support or reject your thoughts. You may also create a treatise of where you would LIKE to see film feminism go how you would like to see women represented in the industry and on filmthat would be another take on the essay.
In short — create a new feminist argument around what you observe the industry to be right now (or anti-feminist, or anti-patriarchal). Back it up with the readings who are you building from and/or rejecting? Who is still relevant? You may be DE-scriptive or PRE-scriptive is your theory a call to arms or an observation of what we are seeing right now? Either is appropriate and acceptable. Go forth and conquer!
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