It’s been over 40 years since the film critic Laura Mulvey first coined the term male gaze, in her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975). The male gaze is referred to as a way of seeing women and the world through a masculine perspective and point of view. Continue reading Feminist Film Theory 101: Defining The Male Gaze
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” (2017) , directed by Luc Besson is colourful, exciting and fast paced. But it fails women in so many fundamental ways I left the cinema feeling angry. The film consists of Valerian (Dane De Haan) and Laureline (Care Delevigne) conducting a series of short term errands and rescue missions. It all revolves around an alien species trying to recover a small creature and a pearl so they can re-establish a home planet. Meanwhile a corrupt Commander Arun Fillit (Clive Owen) tries to kill those aliens to cover up the fact he destroyed their planet. Continue reading “Valerian” (2017) – a thousand planets but no women
In Their Own League 