In the essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey structures her argument around two crucial ideas, titled “Pleasure in Looking/Fascination with the Human Form,” and “Woman…
Deepa Mehta’s film Fire is the love story of two sisters-in-law from New Delhi, India. The first, Radha, is the barren wife of Ashok. She has been in a…
Continue reading → Gender Construction and the Gaze in Deepa Mehta’s Fire
Curly Goes the waves Cascading down my inner thigh My legs Densely Yet fine enough that I hope no one notices. I remember seeing a…
Continue reading → Pubic vs. Public: My Fight with Society and My Body Hair
"I didn’t find what I set out looking for. Instead, I found the normal people who were trying to express themselves through a medium which can be heard. Perhaps this is the true social justice nature of filmmaking today."
In Don Roos’ The Opposite of Sex, two narrators fight to tell two different stories in the course of one narrative. The first narrator is…
Continue reading → The Victor Writes the Story: Interpreting Narrations in The Opposite of Sex