Gendered Cinema Area - Yr13 Media and Film

OK here goes! Nina-noodle has been doing some research for the topic of 'Women and Film' for A'level Media Critical Research students and for the FS6 Film Studies topic 'Gendered Cinema'. I have found some useful sites for some of you. I will add to this collection of goodies as and when I stumble accross little gems and post them here for you to browse. Maybe you too could share some resources when you find any to help your fellow comrades. Don't be selfish shellfish and keep them to yourself........SHARE. That's what makes the Media and Film Department soooooo lovely....we care and we share!

Tarantino's Women

http://www.straight.com/article-82844/tarantino-spins-sexploitation

http://www.grin.com/en/fulltext/fru/27138.html (A more academic article about Tarintino's treatment of women. The section on Female Sexuality Presentation and beyond is quite good.)

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/04/grindhouse-kicking-ass-from-the-margins-in-b-horror/ (A really interesting blog focusing on Tarantino's recent move towards 'Grindhouse' with Planet Terror and Death Proof and their representations of women)

http://themanfromporlock.blogspot.com/2007/10/qt-and-women.html (Another good blog on your topic)

Representations of Women in Disney Films

Aimee and Aaron (Some Good Stuff For You)

http://www.newint.org/easier-english/Disney/diswomen.html

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/articles/gender_portrayal/break_mold.cfm

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/boardarchives/2005/mar2005/representwomendisney1.html (A really interesting blog on the topic posted by a Media comrade from another school)

http://www.fathermag.com/9607/Disney/

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/introduction/disneyfairytales.html

Here are some possible questions to structure your Hypothesis:
How has the representation of women in Disney films has changed overtime?
Heroines or victims of a patriarchal Order? A close study of representations of women in Disney films from Snow-White to Mulan.

Female Action/Adventure Heroines

For those of you looking at Action/Adventure heroines like Lara Croft/Electra etc. for your Critical Research Study, here's a few useful bits I have found for you:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1518634,00.html

http://www.girls-with-guns.co.uk/

http://filmexperience.blogspot.com/2007/06/action-heroine-hq.html

http://www.helium.com/tm/240527/female-action-heroines-increasingly

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2007/05/female_action_m.html

This is the Guardian's section on Gender with just lots of useful broad ranging gender related articles:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/0,,670739,00.html

Representations of women in American Animation

http://www.otal.umd.edu/wmst498k/kk14/cartoon3.html - A good site on representations of women in American cartoons.

The Films of Pedro Almodavar

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,766918,00.html