in Film Dan Byrnes FREN 398 May 2009 What Is Sexuality There are different levels of sexuality Here are four BASIC levels Personal Attraction Lust Love What Is Sexual Identity There are also different TYPES of sexuality ID: 444140
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Sexual and Religious Identitiesin Film
Dan Byrnes
FREN 398
May 2009Slide2
What Is Sexuality?
There are different levels of sexuality.
Here are
four BASIC
levels
:
Personal
Attraction
Lust
LoveSlide3
What Is Sexual Identity?
There are also different TYPES of sexuality:
Heterosexuality
Homosexuality
Bisexuality
Pansexuality
AsexualitySlide4
What is Religion?
There are many different types of religion in the world.
Here are a few of the largest ones:
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Hinduism
BuddhismSlide5
What is religious identity?
There are different levels of religion that people can identify with:
Title
Practice
BeliefSlide6
cinema
There are many different genres of film. Some of these include:
Documentary
Drama
Comedy
Romance
Action
Science
fictionSlide7
Sexuality in European Cinema
General sexuality - The
cinema of Europe has the reputation of being more liberal than American cinema in terms of nudity and sexuality but less liberal in terms of
depictions of violence.
Homosexuality – The Teddy Award – Berlin International Film FestivalSlide8
Films in this presentation
A Jihad for Love
- American
- 2007
-
Parvez
Sharma
La Petite
Jérusalem
- French
- 2005
- Karin
Albou
http://www.logoonline.com/video/a-jihad-for-love-full-documentary/1607744/playlist.jhtml
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A Jihad for love
Islam – Muslims believe that God revealed the Qur’an to Muhammad, God’s final prophet.
Sexuality
Homosexuality
The film’s mood and intentions
Serious
Revealing and shocking
Informational
Title – “a religious struggle”Slide10Slide11
South Africa - MuhsinSlide12
Cairo, Egypt - MazenSlide13
Cairo, Egypt - MaryamSlide14
Turkey – Ferda & Kiymet
Slide15
Other elements of the film
The documentary
Privacy techniques
Nondiagetic and diagetic music
Characterization and emotionsSlide16
Criticism
“Noble
in intention but crude in execution,
Parvez
Sharma's documentary about gay Muslim men and women chronicles a handful of outcasts and their personal "jihads" (in Arabic, the word means "struggle," not "holy war").
The accounts are powerful, but so many of the interviewees' faces are blurred to preserve their anonymity that it
feels like you're watching the film through a shower curtain
. Still
, it's hard not to feel gutted when the daughter of a gay South African man tells him he should be stoned and thrown off a mountain, as the Koran instructs
.”
– Chris
Nashawaty
,
Entertainment WeeklySlide17
LA petite Jerusalem
Judaism
is a set of beliefs and practices originated in the Hebrew Bible; the covenantal relationship between the Children of Israel and God.
2007 - 13.2 million people. 41% Israel, 40% US
Sexuality
Film’s moods and intentions
Enlightened
Empowering
Heroic
Theme - Conflict
Title – Love vs. TraditionSlide18
The MAIN ConflictSlide19
lauraSlide20
mathilde
Mathilde strictly abides by the traditions of the Torah, and believes sexual pleasure is forbidden.
Ariel does not want to ask his wife to do things in bed that only he enjoys, and has an extramarital affair.
Mathilde seeks advice from the woman at the mikvah, or ritual bath, who corrects her and reassures her that Jewish law does not forbid pleasure.
Mathilde gains more comfort, and her marriage is saved.Slide21
Other elements of the film
Dramatization
Music
Characterization
Use of cold colors
ActingSlide22
Criticism
“In
"Little Jerusalem," a young Orthodox Jewish woman puts her faith in the Torah and the classics of European philosophy until neither suffices in the face of sexual desire.
The film keenly juggles
big issues, frank nudity, the specter of anti-Semitism in
contempo
France, and more. Scripter-
helmer
Karin
Albou's
assured feature debut, which explores compound emotional disarray, will be a conversation starter for fests in search of new talent and a given for Jewish fests.
Juxtaposing the most ancient of rituals with modern concerns,
the film
sharply portrays a low-income suburb outside Paris that, for most viewers, will be a visit to another planet.
Highlights
include scenes at the ritual baths where an unnamed woman wonderfully played by
Aurore
Clement reminds sexually reserved Mathilde that God wants women to have a blast in the bedroom, assuring her that Jewish law is in favor of sexual pleasure -- within the confines of marriage.In what is arguably her best performance since "Van Gogh," Zylberstein brings Mathilde to life with grace and fervor. As the smart and beautiful but tortured Laura, Valette winningly conveys a serious teen's search for answers.” - Lisa Nesselson, VarietySlide23
Credit
http://sherryx.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/capitalism-and-love-alternate-voices-on-valentine’s-day/
http://
www.imdb.com/media/rm737513984/tt0428965
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/l/little-jerusalem-petite-jerusalem.shtml