This contribution to cultural studies with specific reference to the media inquires into the role of film as gender technology. Taking movies like -Pretty Woman- and -Copykill- as examples, it indicates realization mechanisms in classical narrative approaches to cinema that definitively present naturalized femininity as 'otherness'. But as discourse the film has always been imperfective. A look at present-day approaches to movie-making, like Sally Potter's -Orlando-, Susan Streitfeld's -Female Perversions-, or Yvonne Rainer ...
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This contribution to cultural studies with specific reference to the media inquires into the role of film as gender technology. Taking movies like -Pretty Woman- and -Copykill- as examples, it indicates realization mechanisms in classical narrative approaches to cinema that definitively present naturalized femininity as 'otherness'. But as discourse the film has always been imperfective. A look at present-day approaches to movie-making, like Sally Potter's -Orlando-, Susan Streitfeld's -Female Perversions-, or Yvonne Rainer's -Murder and murder-, clearly points up tendencies toward representing femininity as a concept that is problematic from the outset."
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