Media Magazine reading - two articles on feminism and theory Read Playing With The Past: Post-feminism and the Media ( MM40 , page 64 - our Media Magazine archive is here ). This is a great example of sophisticated media analysis and an indication of the level we want to be writing at by the end of the two-year course. 1) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)? -HBO’s Pan Am and Beyoncé’s music video for ‘Why Don’t You Love Me’, both which use the historical setting of the Fifties and early Sixties, a time before the Feminist movement, to reinforce post-feminist ideologies. 2) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form? -In the pilot episode of Pam Am we see Laura having her weight and appearance checked this shows we do still need feminism as it acknowledges the terrible sexism the women experience, and even punishing male char...
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