Mayne (1994) maintains that the development of feminist film theory and criticism in the United States has been shaped by three major forces, all of which are, like feminist film theory, phenomena of the late 1960s and early 1970s. These include the women’s movement, independent film-making and academic film studies. She goes on to note […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
After Baby, Now What?
INTRODUCTION“Where Do We Fit?” By the time the ehild has trouble in life, you know, I’ll be dead. I’ll be long gone. By the time the kid’s out stealing cars, you know, Dad will be dead a few years. —David Letterman, late-night talk show host David Letterman used humor to shirk fatherhood’s responsibilities before his […]
The marriages we grew up with
One striking aspect of our participants’ relational biographies was the extent to which their parents’ approaches to relating and marriages featured as central influences. For example, Daniel (202a) linked his previous ‘abusive’ relating tendencies to his father’s; Robert (202b) articulated his need to be in a relationship as one he had ‘inherited’ from his mother; […]
Information-Processing Model
The information-processing approach uses a computer metaphor to explain how people process stimuli. Just as with a computer, information enters the system (people’s brains) and is transformed, coded, and stored in various ways. Information enters storage temporarily, as in a computer’s buffer, until it is sometimes stored more permanently, as on a computer disk. At […]
Organising the necessary work
the question(s) of method(s) T he title of this chapter comes from a passage in which Kate Fansler describes how in academic life one is either ‘happily unorganised’, or ‘One kept up with it, organising the necessary work in a provocative way, one wanted to get it done’ (Cross, 1981: 119). Kate Fansler was referring […]
THEORY
It has become a commonly held view, in contemporary film theory, that the simultaneous development of cinema and psychoanalysis at the end of the nineteenth century was not accidental. Mayne (1994:56) contends that the affinity between the two has been described in a variety of ways, ‘from cinema’s obsessive reenactment of those oedipal crises theorized […]
Shukri’s story
On the morning of 27 May 1988, as newsreader for Radio Hargeisa, I reported that the Somali National Movement (SNM) had invaded and captured Burao the previous night. Having made this announcement I immediately excused myself from the Service and went downtown to my mother’s small food store to collect bags of food, charcoal and […]
THE BACKLASH/THE DISCOURSE OF DERISION
There are commentators, mostly but not entirely men, who attribute to feminism as a social and ideological movement, and therefore partly to feminist sociologists, an enormous negative influence. Contemporary Sociology, the ASA’s journal of book reviews and review essays, carried five essays on the state of the discipline in the May 1999 issue, with the […]
The Social Construction of a Rape Victim
Stories of African-American Males about the Rape of Desiree Washington Kevin Brown BECOMING AN INDIVIDUAL in American society, or any other society, is not done in a vacuum. What passes as our individual consciousness is developed under the guidance of cultural patterns and historically created systems of meanings. We are not free agents bound only […]
Postmodern pornography
It has been argued that these distinctions in taste between high and low culture are no longer relevant as a result of the democratizing effects of the mass media. Brian McNair, for example, in his book Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisa — tion of Desire (2002), has argued that in postmodern consumer culture […]