Feminist and gender theory: blog tasks
Media Magazine reading Read Playing With The Past: Post-feminism and the Media (MM40, page 64 - our Media Magazine archive is here ). 1) What are the two texts the article focuses on? Pan Am - HBO series Beyonce- Why dont you love me 2) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)? On the magazine cover, the Pan Am stewardesses are "highly constructed and mediated"- to be aspired by women and enjoyed by men. In the last sequence of the pilot episode, there is a shot of the stewardess' legs as they walk through the airport causing several men to glare at them as they walk past. This idea of the "male gaze" is therefore clear in this scene as the women's appearance e.g "perfectly coiffed hair and make up", attracts the male characters in the show. They appear like this only for the pleasure of men. However the stewardesses ignore these reactions and continue walking- showing that they are not affected by the