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Full-Text Articles in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Dancer's Paradox: Dance In Egyptian Film, Roberta L. Dougherty
The Dancer's Paradox: Dance In Egyptian Film, Roberta L. Dougherty
Roberta L. Dougherty
Filming Dance: Embodied Syntax In Sasha Waltz’S ‘S’, Helen A. Fielding
Filming Dance: Embodied Syntax In Sasha Waltz’S ‘S’, Helen A. Fielding
Helen A Fielding
This paper brings Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological approach to Sasha Waltz’s dance film S, which focuses on the relation between sexuality and language. Maintaining that movement in cinema takes place in the viewers and not the film, the paper considers how the visual can be deepened to include the ways we move and are moved. Saussure’s insights into language are brought to the sensible, which is here understood in terms of divergences from norms. Though film would seem to privilege vision, viewing this film helps to elucidate Merleau-Ponty’s claim that a film succeeds when it engages the viewer’s embodied understanding, and shifts …
Girls On Screen: How Film And Television Depict Women In Public Relations, Jane Johnston
Girls On Screen: How Film And Television Depict Women In Public Relations, Jane Johnston
Jane Johnston
This paper explores how women in public relations have been depicted in the popular culture forms of film and television. With some reference to early screen depictions, it focuses primarily on film and television from the past two decades, analysing women in a variety of public relations roles in the 1990s and 2000s. The study looks at nine leading television series and movies from the United States and United Kingdom to examine how women in public relations are portrayed, and also collates the data from previous studies to develop a profile of how depictions have changed since the 1930s. Primarily, …
When Predator Becomes Prey: The Gendered Jargon Of Popular Culture, Melissa R. Ames
When Predator Becomes Prey: The Gendered Jargon Of Popular Culture, Melissa R. Ames
Melissa A. Ames
Throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century the vernacular of popular culture has been bombarded by sexualized terminology. Although these terms are often formed with humorous intent, their staying power and use as cultural descriptive categories is both intriguing and disturbing. Also troubling is the fact that the majority of these new terms, such as puma (a thirty-something female “dating” a younger male), cougar (a forty-plus female “dating” a younger male), and MILF (“mother I’d like to fuck”), are restricted to the female gender alone. This article analyzes the etymology of these terms, their use in popular culture (ranging …
Terry Fox And The National Imaginary: Reading Eric Walters's Run, Tanis Macdonald
Terry Fox And The National Imaginary: Reading Eric Walters's Run, Tanis Macdonald
Tanis MacDonald
Scholarly article discussing tropes of differing masculinity and heroism in young adult literature.
Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz
Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
No abstract provided.
Review Of Happy Endings, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Review Of Happy Endings, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Donna M. Hughes
“One Big Queer European Family? Immigration In Contemporary Spanish Gay And Lesbian Films”, Gema Pérez-Sánchez
“One Big Queer European Family? Immigration In Contemporary Spanish Gay And Lesbian Films”, Gema Pérez-Sánchez
Gema Pérez-Sánchez
No abstract provided.
The Pilgrim And The Riddle: Father-Daughter Kinship In Anne Carson's "The Anthropology Of Water", Tanis Macdonald
The Pilgrim And The Riddle: Father-Daughter Kinship In Anne Carson's "The Anthropology Of Water", Tanis Macdonald
Tanis MacDonald
Scholarly article discussing pilgrimage and mourning in Carson's "The Anthropology of Water."
"Dead Girl-Bag": The Janet Smith Case As Contaminant In Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe", Tanis Macdonald
"Dead Girl-Bag": The Janet Smith Case As Contaminant In Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe", Tanis Macdonald
Tanis MacDonald
Article discussing the trope of the white woman as pharmakon in SKY Lee's historical novel.