I Want This!
Dec. 9th, 2011 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litotease"...the ideal answer would be a Male Gaze Filter in Final Cut that allows the editor to flip the camera angle and see from the female characters’ perspective. This ‘filter’ is obviously dependent upon additional footage but it would change the narrative so drastically that it’s fun to think about how powerfully different our stories would be if there really was a such an add-on."
Pop Culture Pirate on the difficulty of constructing a feminist critique vid when all of the footage is oriented to the male gaze.
Pop Culture Pirate on the difficulty of constructing a feminist critique vid when all of the footage is oriented to the male gaze.
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Date: 2011-12-09 06:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-09 07:33 pm (UTC)I'm actually reading an essay right now (for a Final Paper I've got to write) that asks whether or not it's possible to film from a female gaze, given how the coded messages of the visual structure of film staging were established by male filmmakers. I've never paid any conscious attention to how the scenes in Dirty Dancing were shot, but now that you've mentioned it (and the visuals are playing in my head along with the soundtrack), I may really need to go re-watch it before I write my paper. (That's the kind of homework I want to have all of the time.)