Sapphosophy - FILM AND T.V. ESSAYS/ARTICLES

MONSTER
by Barbara Reumüller

Das außergewöhnliche Frauenportrfät MONSTER bescherte Regisseurin Patty Jenkins und Hauptdarstellerin Charlize Theron einen wahren Preisregen, der nicht nur angesichts ihres Mutes gerechtfertigt scheint.

Lesbianism in Popular Cinema/Film
by Rebecca Alvin

Picture: Gina Gershon (well known for her lesbian role as Corky) and Jennifer Tilly in Bound directed by the Wachoski brothers.

There are not enough female film script writers and film directors...But we rarely discuss the difficulties of lesbian women in film. Feminine homosexuality is definitely the most neglected women's issue in film today.

Scopophlia in Mulholland Drive.
by Laura Mulvey

Mulholland Drive (2001) is a film written and directed by acclaimed cult filmmaker and artist David Lynch, who is perhaps better known for his award-winning ’80s true story The Elephant Man or award-winning TV series Twin Peaks.

Paul Karpenko / Laura Mulvey

Are all films inherently chauvinist and sexist? Perhaps to a degree. Comolli and Narboni suggest that every film is political in one way or another. Whether it makes its ideology plain or not is unimportant. Mulvey observes that cinema succeeds because it encourages that deep, dark human pleasure: the need to observe. There is “pleasure in looking”, she argues...

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.
by Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.

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