FST-3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Political Cinema, Celluloid, Feminist Film Theory
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The film (diagram from top to bottom, left to right) are products of past events [e. g. the big short (2015) based on the 2008 economic crisis] Intertextual features how a film relates to another films (how they might reference and inform one another) Social reality filmmakers make creative decisions based on social reality; certain films. Women watch themselves being looked at, where men (active role) functions as a historical agent while women (passive role) functions as the subject matter/muse in art. When a female takes on an active rule, they become symbolic, a meta meaning, less of an individual than some symbol of a greater idea. Problem: women are portrayed in a stereotypical fashion and negative light. The tools and techniques of cinema themselves, as part of reality, are an expression of the prevailing ideology; they are not neutral as many revolutionary" filmmakers appear to believe .
