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...female gaze—a term dubbed in film theory as the artistic product of a woman behind the camera. In fact, she rejects the notion of “the gaze” altogether.“The gaze is a decision. It’s not a gender. It’s a little disgusting to accept the female gaze,” Denis said. She does, however, wrestle with what it means to be a female behind the camera, especially when it comes to her approach to making a film. “You don?...
...Department of Law at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, encouraged the assembled undergraduates, alumni, and graduate students to react to the characters and their portrayals. The intimate discussion, so to speak, centered around the various issues and factors surrounding the sex industry, including class, sexual orientation, race, and gender. They also addressed agency and power struggles experienced by the sex workers and their clients both in film and in reality. Some attendees, such as Rheeqrheeq A. Chainey ’11, a women, gender, and sexuality concentrator, were attracted to the subject matter because of their fields of study...
...consider a "four-quadrant" hit, appealing to young and old, male and female - it will need to reel in some Y chromosomes. Iron Man, for instance, won over mostly male comic-book fans first but rode their approval to an opening-weekend audience that was more evenly split by gender...
Harvard may be used to bucking national trends, but in math and computer science, its relationship to the national gender gap is more complicated.Nationally, the number of incoming female undergraduates choosing computer science as a major declined 70 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The trend is part of a quarter-century decline in female computer-science majors detailed in a New York Times article on Saturday.At Harvard, the story looks different, but not necessarily any better. Over the past year, female enrollment in Computer Science 50 has jumped 60 percent...
...pandering. Billy's road to self-discovery is hard fought, and it comes at a painful price. His father, once over the shock and the shame of learning his boy's ambitions, crosses the picket line to earn money for Billy's audition. Issues of sexuality and gender-stereotyping are faced head-on but not pressed. He's no "poof," Billy insists, but that doesn't stop him from a joyful number in which he dons women's dresses with his (less poof-averse) friend Michael. The big emotional moments are manfully underplayed. When Billy must say goodbye...