Books I Love

1. Narnia
2. How To Train Your Dragon
3. To Kill A Mockingbird
4. Bible
5. Catch 22
6. The Book Thief
7. The Great Gatsby
8. The Princess Bride
9. Jane Eyre
10. The Old Man and the Sea
11. The Lion an the Unicorn
12. Gone With the Wind
13. A Room of One's Own
14. Tintin
15. Brambly Hedge
16. Mortal instruments
17. Michael McIntyre's autobiography
18. Harry Potter
19. Laura Ingalls Wilder
20. Adrian Plass
21. Asterix
22. The Hobbit
23. Life of Pi
24. A series of unfortunate events
25. Anne of Green Gables
26. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
27. Emma
28. Pride and Prejudice
29. Persuasion
30. Mansfield Park
31. David Copperfield
32. Geisha of Gion

TV Shows I love

1. Gilmore Girls
2. Community
3. Being Human
4. Parks and Recreation
5. Horrible Histories
6. Doctor Who
7. Anne of Green Gables
8. Sherlock
9. Miranda
10. Jeeves and Wooster
11. The Two of Us
12. Richard II
13. The Mentalist
14. Morecambe and Wise
15. Blackadder
16. Yes Minister
17. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
18. Emma
19. The IT Crowd
20. QI
21. Merlin
22. New Girl
23. The Graham Norton Show
24. The Great British Bake off
25. We'll Take Manhattan
26. Toast
27. Burton and Taylor
28. Death Comes to Pemberly
29. Zach Stone is gonna be famous

Films I love

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Bright Star
4. Star Wars
5. Lord of the Rings
6. Music and Lyrics
7. Mulan
8. The Lion King
9. Howl's Moving Castle
10. Sabrina
11. Les Miserables
12. Wayne's World
13. Calamity Jane
14. His Girl Friday
15. Shakespeare in Love
16. Juno
17. Singin' in the Rain'
18. Les Chroistes
19. Amelie
20. Some Like it Hot
21. Billy Elliot
22. Tangled
23. Hard Day's Night
24. Easy A
25. The Graduate
26. Priceless
27. Zoolander
28. Anna Karenina
29. The Leap Year
30. Chocolat
31. Benny and Joon
32. She's the Man
33. Annie Hall
34. Breakfast at Tiffany's
35. Clueless
36. Romeo + Juliet
37. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
38. Roman Holiday
39. Fiddler on the roof
40. Fantastic Mr Fox
41. Labrynth
42. In The Mood For Love
43. Casablanca
44. 10 things I hate about you
45. My neighbour Totoro
46. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
47. Midnight in Paris

From 'Feminist Film Studies'

• 'Acentral imaging' understanding character and situation represented and reacting to the thought of it
• 'Central imaging' adopting view and mental state of character

Women's Film

• Doane divides women's film into maternal melodrama (seperation and return), love story (female desire recognised then thwarted), paranoid gothic film (associate female spectator with fear) and medical discourse film (female body as site of disease, submission to male medical control) - all constructing masochistic female spectator
• Basinger - films can be double-voiced, provide female viewres with escape/release then say they shouldn't want it and that its wrong,  but can also offer temporary sense of liberation
• Linda williams sees three body genres - sex/porn, violence/horror, emotion/women's film
• Female friendship films - nearly also positvie about relationship but stopped after Thelma and Louise - had been sentimental portrayals of woman adjusting to fit existing social structure
• Normally produced by men, but was inspired by feminist notions of sisterhood
• Literary adaptation of female novelists helped - often focused on sisterly relations of the past
• Chick flick core elements: femaale empowerment, solidarity amongst women, consumerism, fairy tale elements, old fashioned sentimentality
• Convey notion that women can have it all but renewed acceptance of traditional feminity
• most fall into makeover catergory - change identity and self confidence and enables romance
• Sexual reawakening of women in middle age
• show women's triumph over patriarchy whilst retaining their traditional femininity
• Don't address gender roles, complexities of real women's lives

Lesbian Film Theory and Criticism

• Link between portrayals of lesbians and female bonding - Jackie Stacey - homoerotic component to films about woman's obsession with other women
• Homoerotically charged relationships in films reflect that between female viewer and female star
• Fascination with the idealized other
• female spectator positioned in regard to female bonding which represents intimacy involves both identification and desire

Avant Garde and Documentary making

• In 1970s feminist avant-garde separate form previous male one started
• Early avante-garde filmmakers were all male apart from Germaine Dulac and Maya Deren
• Became seen as a place where women could challenge mainstream images but many male avant-garde films were misogynistic eg un chien andalou
• women seldom reach highest level of directorial pantheon
• Female experimentalist work often challenge avant-garde traditions
• Caught between radical aestithicism and allegiance to women's movements demands for realistic portrayals of women's activities and activism
• realism creates passive spectators from a modernist perspective as it presents a story as truth or reality
• make female characters more than an element of plot space
• often interrogate female body as a cultural and linguistic sign - not just visual image but a subject of inquiry
• destroting pleasure derived from identification, narrative involvement and eroticization of femininity
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The Actress

• star actress 'construction, a product of culture... prefabricated by men' Gaines
• Denigrate female star's acting ability in contrast to male stars
• work actress puts into her appearance never seen as a skill
• men more likely to be seen as highly trained or skilled rather than succeeding because of their natural talent or physical attractiveness
• emphasis on training and professionalism for men helps them retain roles as grow older - harder for women to transfer from acting to directing and producing
• female stars often shown as having careers managed or launched by powerful male directors or producers
• female actresses more commonly seen as celebrities
• celebrity status allows to continue despite bad performances or lower box office

Feminist Film Studies and Race:

• Classical feminism criticised for ignoring African American and Third World Women - prompted many post colonial critics many of whom were white feminists
• psychoanalysis prompted focus on one kind of oppression - also Freud's theories are not necessarily universal
• Much of postcolonial criticism has been male-dominated so doesn't focus on women's experience of it
• black men led to accept idealized images of their oppressors and to internalize racist notions of their own superiority
• Edward Said's notion of Orientalism - West thinks of the east as th antithesis of everything western men like to think that they are
• Eastern men characterized as weak feminized inferior and welcoming of western domination - Homi K. Bhabba explored how inferiorizing stereotypes used to justify western conquest and domination of the third world
• White racism structuring colonized people's experience of themselves
• Women of colour might see white western women as complicit in their oppression
• Women of colour may feel patriarchy is another learned behaviour from their White male oppressors not natural to their community - challenge to the concept of universal patriarchy
• Doane - white women and black men both embody castration for white male and black female is double threat so is virtually eliminated from the screen or with promiscuous hyper-sexual primitiveness that connects her to natural landscape
• Modleski - WoC shown in stereotypical images that reduce them to their biological functions or as surrogates for white women
• Kaplan - western imperialist gaze, unquestioned sense of white male superiority
• bell hooks - during slavery black people forbidden to look, black male gaze adopts white male structures and takes as its object white women. Black female spectatorship is more subversive due to the erasure of black womanhood from screen, black women not allowed to look or to be looked at, only serving to validate white supremacy
• Lola Young - using pychoanalsis to look at how issues of power control and subjugation have been mapped onto the black female body, white feminists' advocation of abortion and deconstruction of family unit ignores that Black women see family as a source of strength in a hostile world
• Trinh T Minh-Ha - there isn't an authentic postcolonial identity because third world women's sense of self is sahped by fragmentation, hybridity and in-betweeness

The Woman Auteur

• Pantheon of great directors doesn't have any women
• Alice Guy-Blanche directed the first feature film

And if I did what then?

And if I did what then?
Are you agreev’d therefore?
The Sea hath fishe for every man
And what would you have more?

 Thus did my Mistresse once
Amaze my mind with doubt:
 And popt a question for the nonce,
 To beat my braynes about.

 Whereto I thus replied,
 Eche fisherman can wishe,
That all the Sea at every tyde,
 Were his alone to fishe.

And so did I (in vaine),
 But since it may not be:
 Let such fishe there as find the gaine,
And leave the losse for me.

 And with such lucke and losse,
 I will content my selfe:
 Till tydes of turning time may tosse,
 Such fishers on the shelfe.

 And when they sticke on sands,
That every man may see:
 Then will I laugh and clappe my hands,
 As they do now at mee.

 George Gascoigne