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Concepts and Framework-building for Analyzing Movies
Foucault’s
The
History of
Sexuality
Power
:
Biopower
:
Disciplinary power
S
ubjectivity
Truth
and
Power
Power-knowledge
Discourse Slide2
Use Foucault’s Intellectual Tradition in building the framework:
Subject & Body are created by discourses, i.e., in the symbolic systems in which they are embedded. He focuses on the institutional representation of power: how power operates while developing different discourses, e.g. madness, medicine, punishment, sexuality. Key is power impacts the Body: How does power work to regulate bodies and control populations?
Ref for some slides: Whetstone on
Fouc
Ap
2012Slide3
Discourse
: The scope of the knowable and knowledge form what we call consciousness – knowledges are categorized through which we see the world – this is how power is organized according to FDiscourses can be negative or enablingDiscourse can be an instrument of power and an effect of power, but It can hinder us or act as a hindranceIt may create resistance and a beginning of an opposing strategyDiscourses on:Mental illness and the birth of
“
the clinic
”
Punishment and the birth of
“
the prison
”
SexualitySlide4
Power/
knowledgePower through institutions as mechanisms of power disciplines individualsPower is not seen as a way of subjugating a personPower is the structure of force relations in a society, tied to cultural modes of understanding – “discourse”Rules of power/knowledgePower is decentralized
: from
“
below
”
as much as
“
above
”
Power
designates
areas of life as objects of inquiry
Power implies a limit on the freedom of ways of being
Power is
tied
to
change or transformation
– implies contention and sites of resistanceSlide5
Biopower
:F’s theory of power: Power is not restricted to political or economic elites, nor is it narrowly defined by repression.Power is productive, focused on the power to administer and regulate life, rather than bring deathNot a fixed property held by certain groupsDecentralized, diffuseFluid and present in all interactions Where power is exercised, resistance developsSlide6
The History of
Sexuality18th & 19th C: Sexuality became a target of research & an object of scientific knowledge- social concerns were expressed by the societyEmergence of Freudian Repressive Hypothesis – Victorian-era – controls to repress human sexuality and desireFoucault’s anti-repression argument was:Repression led to “incitement” to sex
More focus on sex, more
talk and desire
Restrict by laws led to
sexual perversion
Sex
is desired as it became hidden and secretive
It then became an obsession
Powerful categories
of normal/
abnormal emergedSlide7
Western society is a singularly confessing society:
Confessions – a double subjectionA subject or a person in society is unerr social rulesA confessor’s narrative on own desires, thoughts, actions and experiences to lighton: JusticeMedicine, psychiatryEducationFamily relationshipsLove relationsSlide8
http
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KL92oBWcQSexuality in control under power 1.23 min 2008ConfessionsThe Roman Catholic tradition of Confession:Typically the penitent begins the confession by saying, "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been [time period] since my last confession." The penitent then must confess mortal sins in order to restore his/her connection to God's grace and not to merit Hell.Therapy and confessionPsychiatrist (Power) to Patient (subject) relationsPower is embedded in the Discourse when subjectivity is established on normal-abnormal statusSlide9
Confessions: The Oprah Show
Rihanna 2012 5 minhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoitLatLAXkWhitney Houston 2009 5 minhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14O-cHb9DGYSlide10
F: Power
is the structure of force relations in a society, tied to cultural modes of understanding – “discourse”Women stories, movies and the Oscars feb 2011 5.11 minhttp://www.feministfrequency.com/2011/02/womens-stories-movies-and-the-oscars/LEGO & Gender Part 2: The Boys Club feb 2012 13.43 min http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/02/lego-gender-part-2-the-boys-club/Slide11
Movies on discourse of the power of love: Is it experts’ treatment or expression of bio-power?Mental Illness in Movieshttp://www.squidoo.com/MentalillnessinMovies As Good as it Gets (1996) Shine (1996)Slide12
F: Power/knowledge and discourse on excluded women or
racialized personsThe Oscars and the Bechdel Test 10.30 min feb15, 2012http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/02/the-2012-oscars-and-the-bechdel-test/ Slide13
Statistics on the State of Women and Hollywood
Ref: http://womenandhollywood.com/factoids/2009FILMBox Office In 2009 there were 217 million moviegoers. The total admissions was 1.4 billion dollars. Women were 113 million of the moviegoers and bought 55% of the tickets. Men are 104 million of the moviegoers and 45% of the tickets. Women made up 9 million more filmgoers than men.Slide14
Women Centric Films 2009
2 of the top 10 grossing films are women centric; 9 of the top 50 grossing films (two of them are animated – The Princess and the Frog, Coraline); 18 of the top 100 grossing films; 26 of the top 150 grossing filmsSlide15
Women centric Films, Their Rank and Total Gross 2009
4 The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($293,897,327)8 The Blind Side ($238,430,210)16 The Proposal ($163,958,031)31 It’s Complicated ($104,782,080)32 The Princess and the Frog ($100,352,358)34 Julie & Julia ($94,125,426)37 The Ugly Truth ($88,915,214)39 Hannah Montana The Movie ($79,576,189)42 Coraline ($75,286,229)Slide16
Women Behind the Scenes
Women directed 7% of the top 250 grossing films. Women wrote 8% of the top 250 grossing films. Women comprised 17% of all executive producers Women made up 23% of all producers 18% of all editors were women 2% of all cinematographers were women.Slide17
Women & Hollywood
Sexism Watch: ABC New Pilot Titleby Melissa Silverstein on January 12, 2011ABC picked up a new series entitled Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23.When Cougar Town acquired its title, it expressed the premise of the show.The story is about a naive young woman who comes to New York City and ends up with a trouble-making party-girl roommate.A woman — Nahnatchka Khan — is one of the creator/writers.http://womenandhollywood.com/2011/01/12/sexism-watch-abc-new-pilot-title/ (a rich source of films & commentary)Slide18
Equal pay:
Made in Dagenham Reflects A Current Realityby Melissa Silverstein on November 17, 2010in Advocacy Feminism. 4.21 minhttp://womenandhollywood.com/2010/11/17/made-in-dagenham-reflects-a-current-reality/Slide19
Michel Foucault Madness and Civilization: The Birth of the Asylum; Foucault vs.
Freudhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCW6Ztkp7YTop 10 Movies That Take Place in a Mental Institution (Audience Choice)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzzktK6GcegThe Truth about Mental Hospitals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-ERXsCo5MEInside Mental Hospitalhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9wEvsg-nhA&feature=endscreen&NR=1Slide20
Madness
CHANGELING http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvHquOz-lDU 2008 Trailer 1 5.39http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edX09NFZ3oc trailer cont’d 2 min- FILM REVIEW 10.03 minhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y41garIaTIY Aug. 20121928 woman (woman vote 1920)Slide21
Judyism
: Judge Judy At Her Best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH57MnJIjkc 3.36 minBEST OF JUDGE JUDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mV5jyBu0i8 11.30minSlide22Slide23Slide24Slide25Slide26Slide27Slide28Slide29