WOMENST 3BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Feminist Film Theory, Invisible Disability, Bell Hooks
6 Sep 2018
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Disabled bodies have been represented in medical textbooks, charity advertisements - they are totally desexualized. Disabled people have been so desexualized that being sexualized can be very empowering. Ellen stohl, a disabled woman, was criticized for posing nude in playboy, she defended it by saying that it empowered her. Visibly disabled characters in visual culture who have a sexuality tend to be men, those with an invisible disability or mental illness tend to be women. Disabled characters are usually normative in some other way. From bell hooks" the oppositional gaze: black female spectatorship . Critique of traditional feminist film theory - in mulvey"s male gaze, the objectified woman is always white. Black people"s gaze has been limited/controlled as a form of control over them - originated during slavery, slaves weren"t allowed to look at white people. The gaze is a form of agency and resistance. Oppositional gaze is a political form of critical spectatorship.
