ENGB38H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Intersectionality, Historiographic Metafiction, Metafiction
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Thursday quiz 5%, 15 questions march (easy questions), fun home, maus, persepolis. Born in beech creek, pa, in 1960. Before fun home was best known weekly strip dykes to watch out for" from 1983 to 2008. Featured protests against bush commenting on what was happening at the time. Fails if only 1 woman, do not talk to each other, and if convo about male characters only. She didn"t come up with it her friend liz wallace did. You rarely see two female roles as friends. Bechdel test failed by many movies 42% data sets fail this test. 10% of movies fail to have more than 1 female character. Representation in film women =51% of population and only 30% rep of film . Barely passes this test b/c this book about relationship between father and daughter. Gay father and lesbian daughter irony we see bruce can"t bond with daughter about flowers b/c she is uninterested in these things.
