Outline and use a feminist approach to studying a media text (Mad Max Fury Road-and) and audiences. Focus on a specific example. Show how this kind of approach might enhance our ideas about the way that media contribute to our understanding of identities.
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Analysis a specific aspect of the movie (the narrative) in relation to feminist approach.
Please refer to these specific reading :
1) Mulvey, L. (1975) ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema,’ Screen, 16(3): 6-18.
2) Attwood, F. (2004) ‘Pornography and objectification,’ Feminist Media Studies, 4(1): 7-19
3) Nguyen, T. (2013), ‘From SlutWalks to SuicideGirls: Feminist Resistance in the Third Wave and Postfeminist Era,’ WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 41(3 & 4): pp. 157-172, Fall/Winter.
4) Neale, S. (1983) ‘Masculinity as Spectacle: Reflections on Men and Mainstream Cinema’, Screen, 24(6).
5) Krolokke, C. and Scott Sorensen A, (2006) ‘Three Waves of Feminism: From Suffragettes to Grrls,’ pp. 1-24 in Gender Communication Theories and Analyses: From Silence to Performance, Thousand Oaks: Sage
6) Banet-Weiser, S. and Miltner, K. M. (2016) ‘#MasculinitySoFragile: culture, structure and networked misogyny,’ Feminist Media Studies, 16(1): 171-174.